And it came to pass that Ron Hunter wrote: > 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.
But not for non-english words adopted into the language, and Tomato is such a word. -- Netscape FAQs: http://www.ufaq.org Netscape 6/7 Tips: http://www.hmetzger.de/net6e.html Netscape 6 FAQ: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/ns6faq.html Netscape 7 Help/Tips: http://techaholic.net/ns7.html Web page validation: http://validator.w3.org About Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org
