POLL: Potatoes and Tomatoes

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After the Z poll, I'm surprised this hasn't come up. Well, I've done it now, and no- there isn't a "let's call the whole thing off" option

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Poll Results: Potatoes and Tomatoes (30 votes.)

How do you pronounce potato and tomato? (Choose 1)
* Po-tay-to, to-may-to - 50% (15)
* Po-tay-to, to-mah-to - 50% (15)
* Po-tah-to, to-may-to - 0% (0)
* Po-tah-to, to-mah-to - 0% (0)

 

Personally i say tatties and to-mah-to

 

It's to-mah-to for me, if we talk about potatoes, ever since I've seen The two towers I call them taters, love the sound of that

 

What about "pot-atoh-ess", and "tom-atoh-ess"?

 

Po-TAY-toe and to-MAY-toe, thank you....
Though I do pronounce aunt as AUnt (stressing the U, not ant.) And either= AYther neither= nAYther, you get the picture.

 

I'm gonna have to go with Samwise the Brave on this one

Though of course in regular life, I say Tomaat en Aardappel

 

I saw this coming a mile away after the Z poll. I wonder what will be next

"I say po-tay-to, you say..." actually, I couldn't care less about how you pronounce it. As long as I know what you want to say, it's all good.

[ January 23, 2003, 03:27: Message edited by: Blog ]

 

Here, it's "patatas" and "kamatis".

But seriously, it doesn't matter to me much, but I like the way Pippin say "to-ma-tos" in LOTR:FOTR.

 

Assuming then, that you didn't see the fact that i bought this up IN the posts for the Z poll and someone was kind enough to give the exact pronounciation of both words.

 

Well actually I did see it. The main reason I started this poll was because I'd never heard anyone pronounce potato po-tah-to and I was curious to find out if anyone actually did. So far it looks like the answer's no.

[ January 23, 2003, 10:37: Message edited by: Ironbeard ]

 

Indeed it does

I never thought anyone would.

 

...and then there's the whole phenomenon of American children saying ba-NAH-nah because they're watching so much of The Wiggles!

[ January 23, 2003, 15:39: Message edited by: Rallymama ]

 

My teacher in English, who had the highest/best mark possible for spoken english on an English school, teached me toe-MAH-toes and puh-TAY-toes.
For me it's still Tomaten en Aardappelen (Right Far?)

 

T'is indeed much more easier in Dutch, but we have the paprika problem
Is it pap-ri-ka or Paa-pri-kaa

 

C'jakob, that sounds chinese!

 

What do the phonetic thingies in the dics say?

 

/te'ma:teu/
/pe'teiteu/

The first and the last 'e' in both is a 'schwa' (short unstressed 'e').

in American /te'meiteu/ is acceptable

@Dragon's Jewel: you appear to mix Britsh patterns with American ones. Well, I've even heard Brits pronounce a full 'r' before consonants and Americans not do so...