doughnut or donut

　　Just as both jelly-filled and chocolate-glazed versions of these fried treats are delicious, both doughnut and donut are correct spellings of the word.

　　就像这些油炸食品，果酱夹心甜甜圈和巧克力釉面甜甜圈都很美味一样，doughnut和donut都是这个词的正确拼写。

　　Doughnut is the older of the two spellings. It's also most obviously related to what the dessert is made out of—dough.

　　Doughnut是两个拼法中较古老的一个。这也最明显的体现出甜点是由生面团制成的。

　　The simplified spelling of donut is an American invention that came along later. It also gained a boost when Dunkin' Donuts opened in 1950.

　　dounut的简化拼写来源于一个后来出现的美国发明。1950年，当康恩都乐开业时，它也得到了发展。

　　So, while doughnut remains more common, both of these spellings are perfectly fine.

　　所以，虽然doughnut比较常见，但这两种拼写都很好。

　　flier or flyer

　　Like grey/gray, the flier/flyer debate has been going on for centuries.

　　像grey/gray一样，关于flier/flyer的争论已经持续了几个世纪。

　　A flier—or flyer—can mean any number of things. It can be something, or someone, who flies. Or, in the United States anyway, it can mean a small piece of paper with information on it. And those are just two of the many meanings of the word.

　　flier——或者flyer——可以指任意数量的东西。它可以是某种东西，也可以是某个人，会飞。或者，不管怎么说，在美国，这可能意味着一张带有信息的小纸。那些是这个词的许多意思中的两个。

　　When the word was first coined in the mid-1400s, it was spelled variously as flier or flyer. This spelling ambiguity has continued since then. For a while in the 19th century, flier and flyer were neck-in-neck in terms of popularity, but these days flyer is by far the more common spelling. Either way, both are accepted spellings of this word.

　　当这个词在14世纪中期第一次被创造出来时，它被拼成了flier或flyer。自那时以来，这种拼写模糊性一直在继续。在19世纪有一段时间，flier和flyer在受欢迎程度上不相上下，但如今flyer是更常见的拼写。

　　theatre or theater

　　One of the great trans-Atlantic spelling divides is theatre vs. theater. For a while, the spelling of this word wasn't settled.

　　跨大西洋拼写上的一大分歧是theatre 和theater。有一段时间，这个词的拼写没有解决。

　　Circa 1380, it was often spelled theatre or teatre. In the UK from 1500–1700, the preference was for the spelling theater. (That's how Shakespeare spelled it.) By the 19th century, theatre once again became much more common in the UK. However, in the US, the spelling theater was preferred. And that's how the lay of the land remains today.

　　大约1380年，它常被拼成theatre或者是teatre。在1500年至1700年的英国，人们倾向于使用theater。(莎士比亚就是这样拼写的。)到了19世纪，theatre又一次在英国变得更加普遍。然而，在美国，theater这一拼写更受青睐。这就是今天的情况。

　　So, whether you spell it theatre or theater largely depends on which side of the Atlantic you find yourself on. That said, the spelling theatre is still found in the US—it's often considered a slightly fancier way to write the word.

　　所以，你将它拼写成theatre还是theater，这很大程度上取决于你身居大西洋的哪一边。也就是说，在美国，theatre这一拼写仍然存在——人们通常认为这是一种稍微有点花哨的写法。

　　T-shirt or Tee-shirt

　　When you get up in the morning, do you put on a T-shirt or tee-shirt?

　　早上起床时，你穿 T-shirt 还是tee-shirt?

　　T-shirts are so named because they look like a capital letter T. That makes T-shirt a somewhat more intuitive spelling.

　　T-shirts之所以如此命名，是因为它们看起来像大写字母T，这使得T恤的拼写更加直观。

　　By the 1940s, tee-shirt had emerged as an acceptable alternative spelling for T-shirt. However, it remains far less popular than the original T-shirt. Plus, the Chicago Manual and other style guides usually recommend T-shirt.

　　到20世纪40年代，tee-shirt 成为 T-shirt的一种可接受的替代拼写。然而，它仍然不如原来的T-shirt流行。此外，《芝加哥手册》和其他风格指南通常建议使用T-shirt。

　　That said, we're sticking with our favorite sentence in this slideshow: they're both correct.

　　话虽如此，我们还是坚持这个幻灯片中我们最喜欢的一句话：它们都是正确的。