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I'm just curious. This question started bugging me while I was doing my homework.
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More like puh-tay-to unless I'm really paying attention then po-tay-to...
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It's a tater!  PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
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--Stardust, Caroline K
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If you really want to avoid all confusion, just call it an aardappel .  Saskia (who's feeling mightily silly at the moment)
I tawt I taw a puddy cat!
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The fact that I grew up with parents with strong Oklahoman accents shows in that word. I actually pronounce it puh-TAY-tuh unless I'm consciously thinking about it, which is true of most multi-syllabic words ending in a long o sound (pillow, fellow, tomato, Amarillo). My kids razz me mercilessly for that.
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Or tatties. As in mince and tatties or tatties and neeps (turnips). Although, I have to admit that, despite being Scottish, I've never said tatties. LabRat 
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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In Idaho, they're called "spuds". 
Lois: You know, I have a funny feeling that you didn't tell me your biggest secret.
Clark: Well, just to put your little mind at ease, Lois, you're right.
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I actually pronounce it puh-TAY-tuh I say that, too. Once in awhile I say, "Tater."
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Well, am I lucky I'm born German - we don't have half a dozen different ways of pronouncing a word, we have half a dozen names for a thing. Okay, finally looked it up. According to Wikipedia, I found twenty names for potatoes, all of them of different roots, many of them in a number of different regional variants (spelling, pronunciation). Isn't English simple?
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Mine's more like puh-tae-to.
On a side note, how do y'all pronounce hemorrhoid? In TX, (or at least Houston) we pronounce it Hem-or-oid but some other FOLCS thought that was the funniest thing ever. Seriously though! Even doctors call them hem-or-oids.
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You know, Steph, I was just about to comment that wow, you say potato the same way I do, but you can't say hemorrhoid correctly to save your life!
Clark: "You don't even know the meaning of the word 'humility,' do you?"
Lois: "Never had a need to find out its meaning."
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I'm not crazy! You heard both pronunciations online, remember? Just cause it was not "Webster's Dictionary" that pronounced it that way. Dictionary.com is legit too! Plus, Websters is liberal so there.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always
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I say puh-TAY-toe usually, but sometimes I say poe-tay-toe
Mmm cheese.
I vid, therefor I am.
The hardest lesson is that love can be so fair to some, and so cruel to others. Even those who would be gods.
Anne Shirley: I'm glad you spell your name with a "K." Katherine with a "K" is so much more alluring than Catherine with a "C." A "C" always looks so smug.
Me: *cries*
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Poe-tay-toes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew... Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.
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I think, I'm another puh-tae-to gal. Prefer to call them McDonalds fries. Mona
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Actually,it's usually batata (Buh-tah-tah) :p
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Po-tay-to
Love the Sam Gamgee reference, Karen. Was just reading that the other day.
I think, therefore, I get bananas.
When in doubt, think about time travel conundrums. You'll confuse yourself so you can forget what you were in doubt about.
What's the difference between ignorance, apathy, and ambivalence?
I don't know and I don't care one way or the other.
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Tay-ter.
There. That avoids all those annoying polls, doesn't it?
Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.
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