Jay Garcia wrote: > > On 17/08/02 09:43, Ron Hunter Replied As Follows: > > --- Original Message --- > > > Yeah, Jay, but they teach people to spell 'tomatoe' as 'tomato'. Leaving off > > that 'e' saves ink in newspapers and publishing, but it changes the way the > > word would be pronounced, and is 'wrong'. I too was an English major, and > > practices often change, albeit slowly, as some of us just aren't going to go > > along with such uncivilized practices as putting ending punctuation inside a > > quotation mark at the end of a quotation that ends a sentence. What goes in > > the quotation marks is THE QUOTATION, NOT the punctuation for the sentence > > containing it. Anyone can see what confusion the current practice might > > cause. > > > > If you spell tomato as tomatoe then it's mis-spelled and is wrong. There > is no such word as tomatoe although I have seen it spelled that way. > Merriam Webster does not contain an entry for "tomatoe". I have NEVER > heard of anyone teaching to spell tomato "tomatoe" ... absurd > > Now, if you ask Dan Quayle to spell it then he'll do "tomatoe" for sure. :-D > > -- > Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion > Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI > UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org > ** Post To Group ONLY, do NOT email **
Well, Jay, that IS how it SHOULD be spelled, unless you want to say it tumaata. In order for the ending 'o' to have a long 'o' sound, there needs to be a following vowel. The point is that the language changes, and most people accommodate themselves to the changes, and often we forget how it WAS before. You have probably seen 'color' spelled 'colour'. IN the US, this is wrong, in the rest of the English speaking world, it is right. -- Ron Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
