Spelling

[clueless123]

Does anybody else remember when yogurt had an aitch in it?

[dannyk13]

Now and again it still pops up with an aitch/

[Patsy33]

Yes. I usually spell it with an aitch.

[Rockrose]

I spell it with an H

[ummmm]

Yeah.

[-Talbot-]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Pot_fa%C3%AFence-yoghourt_Maggi.jpg/1200px-Pot_fa%C3%AFence-yoghourt_Maggi.jpg

[Prudie]

I always spell yoghurt with an H

[woofgang]

me too

[clueless123]

Interestingly (or not?) I have been involved with two businesses (Ski and Longley) who spell it without an aitch...

[dannyk13]

All the ones on Tesco's website are spelled without the aitch.

[Jackdaw33]

As well as an H I also spell it with an O, Yoghourt. This is from the French Yaourt.

[clueless123]

...but can you find it in a shop with an o and h?

[kvalidir]

I always spelled it Yogourt just to be different (AKA wrong) apparently :)

[douglas9401]

It's also handy if you have a spell with an itch.

[shoota]

Speaking of itches...
I regularly drop my britches,
But never my 'aitches'.
That really irritates.

[Khandro]

I learnt this morning (by a circuitous route, - don't ask!) that if you have a good vinyl copy of The Beatles, known as "The White Album" of 1968, and it has, as a few do, 'Rocky Raccoon' spelt with only one 'c' then it can inflate the price by "several hundred pounds", amazing.
Has anybody got one?

[ichkeria]

The word yog(h)(o)urt / yaourt comes from Turkish

[shoota]

I thought you were going to comment on the 'itchy' subthread, er, ichy….

[ichkeria]

Ha ha! Er, no (ahem)

[Buenchico]

From the OED entry for 'yogurt', showing that
(a) the 'h' wasn't present in the original Turkish form ;
(b) it's likely that we acquired the 'h' from the German or Dutch forms of the word ; and
(c) the form without the 'h' is the preferred one for food packaging in this country:
http://www.upl.co/uploads/Yogurt1546882174.jpg

[jno]

we seemed to acquire the word, and the product, about 50 years ago and the spelling varied because it was a comparatively new word on the supermarket shelves. But the nation seems to be settling on yogurt, which is pretty phonetic.