What’re Words For, Part 6….

My recent guest spot on the Belle of the Brawl’s (BotB) blog has spurned me on to today’s word. While the Guest Blogger at the BotB, I talked about some of the wacky competitions that occur around the world. One that I mentioned is the Tomatina, occurring each year in Bunol, Spain. It is, essentially, a town-wide food fight, using the vegetable that makes up today’s word used in Maine.

Word: Tomato, Tomatoes (N.) (toe-may-toe, toe-may-toes)
Pronunciation note: This is to be pronounced with a long “a”, of course. Anyone who’d say “tomahtoes” would put them in clam chowder.

(Definition from: "How To Talk Yankee", by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

And we all know that tomatoes DO NOT BELONG IN CLAM CHOWDER, ayuh.