“Dan Quayle misspells potato—and the Press goes ballistic and NEVER lets anyone forget it!! Yet they ignore the things you mentioned.”
It wasn’t even a misspellng...it was an outdated alternate spelling.
He read it off a placard held up by a member of the Teachers Union.
Was it accepted as a correct answer?
>> It wasn’t even a misspellng...it was an outdated alternate spelling.
If I’m not mistaken, the classroom instructor gave Quayle a card that had the word spelled in its ‘archaic’ form as “potatoe”