On 18 Aug 2002, it is alleged that Travis Crump sauntered in to
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Funny, apparently whether or not it has a trailing 'e' changes the
> pronunciation of every vowel in the word. :) I pronounce tomato as
> t�m�t�...[� is supposed to be a long 'o']. I hate to break it to you
> but English isn't a phonetic language, and doesn't even pretend to be.
Tom�to -- tom�to,
Pot�to -- pot�to,
Let's call the whole thing off.
(Like someone /wasn't/ going to quote that eventually. . . .)
/b.
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