[Sca-cooks] Possible reason it's dificult to figure out ingredients in some old recipe manuscripts

[Sharon Gordon]

How in the heck do you spell potato?
If GH can stand for P as in Hiccough
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbour
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau
Then the right way to spell POTATO should be:
GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU