NOOOOOOO! It is potato!
Sheeeeesh!
Ahem.....
The correct pronunciation is.....
Spud.
LOL, Pharon and I have made an under-the-table agreement. You see, I don't mind the pronunciation. I don't like the incongruity. So now potato is potahto and dastardly deb will just have to learn to live with it.
Rae is right. It's actually spud or tayter. And those red thingies are called love apples. Your trivial affectations can have no effect on me.
<Rae has a new best buddy.....Yippee!!!!!>
Well! If that isn't the lateral thinking way to spoil people's fun.....er, I mean to avoid senseless argument and bickering!
Well done me old chinas!
Obviously an authority is needed here.
I say tuh-mayt-o and I say tuh-maht-o, whichsomever comes outta me gob.
As to potato, it's relative to where I am, to whom I'm speaking, what's being served alongside the potato and the means of delivery.
Served with sausage, I say mash - with a burger, I say fries, unless I'm in Blighty, in which case, I say chips, as I do when having fish or beans - in Spain, I say puh-tah-tuhs, in Ireland, pratties, and, if I were ever in Russia, I'd be apt to say smirnoff, and, finally, when the potato issues forth from a crinkly bag, I say either chips or else crisps, depending on who's paying no attention whatsoever to me at the time.
BUT, I'd never, never, ever say puh-taht-o ... no, not even in the face of starchvation.
LOL - Debacle is truly the renaissance man of the world of starchy tuberosity!
M. deBacle is obviously a man of great wisdom and learning. I would be among the first to admit that. And I think it wise that he avoids the word itself (the ding-an-sich, as it were) in favor of 'crisps' and 'chips' and whatnot. (I, myself, usually ask for 'hash-browns' or 'home-fries' with my eggs and sausage). However, those red thingies are still pomadoros, rough-hew it how you will.
One enterprising young congressman, in the days of Ray-gun, stood up in the house one day, and sang:
You say Gren-ay-da
I say Gren-ah-da
Gren-ay-da, Gren-ah-da,
Gren-ah-da, Gren-ay-da
Let's call the whole thing off . . .
(well, i was amused, anyway . . . )
What can we use to affect the learners of English, to help them in effectively speaking English?
Just ask for the Yukon Gold.
and what about scalloped? and kartoffel salat? and latkes?
All that does is improve my portuguese (HA-HA)
As for kartoffel salat?
I don't get it
HELP?
That's why it sounds familiar, It's German and I can speak Dutch, well a version thereof, and it's similar.
thanks
ehbeth
It sounds even more similar in the dialect of German I speak!
and back to your question, posted a bit earlier - food is always good to help people learn new languages.
