I know this isn't fair but I REALLY don't like the southern accent. And to save myself the greif of the gripes and judgements of others I won't go into why. BUT, I will say just one thing.......
TOMATO AND POTATO DO NOT END WITH AN "A"!!!!!!!!!!
I am sorry but EVERY time I hear someone pronounce tomato or potato as "tamata" or "potata" I visibley cringe. (I also cringe when Jalapeno is pronounced Hal-a-pee-no....come on now, you watch TV, have seen ONE cooking show., you KNOW it is not pronounced that way. *sigh*) Don't get me started on the word Crick, better known to all us other people as creek. Or Iran and Iraq (can we just say that we don't say I-taly, I-lliois, so WHY do you say I-raq and I-ran...the natives don't, so why do you make us sound uneducated and disrespecting of the country by constantly mispronouncing it!)
I could go on and on and on about the words people mispronounce, as it is is on my top ten of an albeit very long list of pet peeves but this post is about Tomato and Potato having just watched one of my cooking shows where it was said several times and I just about screamed.
I say again...THERE IS NO A AT THE END! There is a ditty about you say po-tay-to I say Po-toh-to/I say to-may-to you say to-moh-to, but no where in that ditty does it say either of you say tamAta. So WHY do you do it? Why? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
I leave you with this:
Tomato
Iraq
Jalapeno
creek
In the Harry Connick Jr. version, he sings it as you say toeMAYtoe, I say TUHmaytuh, you say poeTAYtoe, I say puhTAtuh, let's call the whole thing off. =) No room for regional dialects, huh?
ReplyDeleteThere's one that I deliberately mispronounce because I grew up doing it that way: NeVAWduh
Also, it bugs my wife.
Personal pet peeve: sell vs sale vs cell, all pronounced the same here.
Nope. No room for regional dialect, considering that the only people who pronounce it that way are the people of that "region" lol. That's why I prefaced with it may not be fair but I hate the southern accent;) lol.
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