Potatoe? So, How Do You Spell Quayl?
Vice President Dan Quayle puzzled elementary students during a visit to their school Monday when he misspelled the word potato during a spelling bee.
A boy went to the blackboard in a classroom at Rivera Elementary School, wrote “potato” and then was told by Quayle he was missing a letter. When the puzzled boy added an “e,” making the word “potatoe,” Quayle praised him to the amazement of a crowd of reporters.
The vice president was reading an incorrect spelling on a handwritten flash card he was using.
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