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    Default You say tomato i say tomato

    How do you actually say it?
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    Default Re: you say tomato i say tomato. What is your accent?

    The correct way of course .... Tomato with a long A

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    Default Re: you say tomato i say tomato. What is your accent?

    I say To-may-dow




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    Default Re: you say tomato i say tomato. What is your accent?

    Tom-mar-toe.

    I'm a Brit with a Sussex accent.

    Phil.

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    Tom-A-ta (bit of jersey accent lingers on some words)

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    Like Toe-May-Doe ... U think its regional or something else... Im originally from western Maryland - the most distinct part of our accent is to say warter for water or warshingon.... Its taken me years to drop that!!!

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    I say it like toh-may-toe!

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    Mayter.




    OK, whatever PookaShell says is good enough for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lapaholic View Post
    Im originally from western Maryland - the most distinct part of our accent is to say warter for water or warshingon.... Its taken me years to drop that!!!
    SO many people from my area say "wudder" I HATE that!!!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil-W View Post
    Tom-mar-toe.

    I'm a Brit with a Sussex accent.

    Phil.
    Same as him `Tom aaaahh Toe`
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    Depends whether I'm hanging around fellow Southerners or Californians. Back home, it's a ta-MAY-da. In Cali, it's a ta-MAY-to. I usually slip back into the Southern pronounciation when I'm cooking too, even in Cali, probably because I learned to cook from Southern women and I slip back into Southern Wife mode in the kitchen.

    K hates it when I start drawling like a redneck, LOL. Whenever I say something like "hand me that tamayda there," he winces visibly.

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    lol this is a funny thread, umm I guess like Pookashell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cutey503 View Post
    SO many people from my area say "wudder" I HATE that!!!!!!!!
    Heeeey, what's wrong with 'wudder'? I say Tuh-may-do. I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    Depends whether I'm hanging around fellow Southerners or Californians. Back home, it's a ta-MAY-da. In Cali, it's a ta-MAY-to. I usually slip back into the Southern pronounciation when I'm cooking too, even in Cali, probably because I learned to cook from Southern women and I slip back into Southern Wife mode in the kitchen.

    K hates it when I start drawling like a redneck, LOL. Whenever I say something like "hand me that tamayda there," he winces visibly.


    It's not just a southern thing Yek. Depending upon who I'm with (or how much wine has been consumed) it's either toe-may-toe or to-may-duh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cutey503 View Post
    SO many people from my area say "wudder" I HATE that!!!!!!!!

    I have tried so hard to get that out of my system. Warshcloth. I gotta go Warsh the clothes. That's just as bad as Yinz.


    But....I say Toe may toe

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    My grandfather grew up his whole life in Memphis and he says "warsh" and "Warshington," too. If that's a Maryland/Virginia thing, I don't know where he picked it up.

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    to-mar-toe

    but yeah, australian accent.

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    I say "Tu-may-doe".

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    Toe-mate-toe

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    Default Re: You say tomato i say tomato

    here in austex the most common pronunciation, myself included, is tuhmayto

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    Like all the cool kids,
    Tah MAY toe

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    Let's call the whole thing off.
    waffles are just pancakes with little squares on them.

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    tah-may-toe my SO says tah-mah-toe and it drives me crazy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    My grandfather grew up his whole life in Memphis and he says "warsh" and "Warshington," too. If that's a Maryland/Virginia thing, I don't know where he picked it up.
    I'm thinking that the NJ boonies accent is just like the south because my friend Janice says warsh.

    How about a nice Staten Island accent like my Nana? Erl for oil and terlet instead of toilet!

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    Terlet!

    I don't think "warsh" is a Southern thing because I don't know anyone else who pronounces it like that. Just my grandfather. And his parents were Southern too so I have no clue where he got it from.

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