Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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.

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1 Comments:

Blogger QUASAR9 said...

More on tomatoes:

here I have declared war
and critter proof

4:17 PM  

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