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Madlooney6 wrote: I find the z instead a s annoying when I actually put s in the word and it changes to a z.

That has to do with whatever device you're using. There are settings for that.

Madlooney6 wrote: Onto the subject of doughnuts/donuts. Going by written records, Doughnut is the older spelling (earliest record of the word doughnut is in a short story from 1808, it is referenced the year later in Washington Irving's History of New York), Donut appeared at 92 years later (the first record of the word donut was in Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa by George W. Peck in 1900, it stayed rare until 1950).

Older does not mean better. Often times, in fact, it means worse. By your logic, you should speak Old English, since it's where modern English came from. Language evolves.

Madlooney6 wrote: The word doughnut is used internationally whilst donut is American.

Not as internationally as you might think.