What is the language "British"?

[Steve Searle]

On Tue, August 29, 2006 12:30 pm, jdow wrote:
>
> And potatoe WAS/IS a legitimate spelling for potato in the US at the
> time illiterate lefties made it a means of tarring Dan Quayle.

But Dan Quayle was correcting a school child who spelled it "potato", so
presumably he is at least as illiterate as your lefties since he didn't
know that potato was also correct.

Steve