Two South Asian co-workers just passed my desk, chatting breezily. One of them was riffing from the old "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" lyric: "What does it matter? 'tomato', 'tomato'..."
Which is perfectly common except that neither of his two pronunciations of "tomato" were particularly close to two canonical pronunciations from the song.
They were different from each other, so the point would be clear to anyone listening I guess, but it kind of bent my brain a little bit.
Which is perfectly common except that neither of his two pronunciations of "tomato" were particularly close to two canonical pronunciations from the song.
They were different from each other, so the point would be clear to anyone listening I guess, but it kind of bent my brain a little bit.
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