You say tomayto and I say tomarto...

Civilization comes to New York...

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NEW YORK is finally getting a school where children can play cricket, eat shepherd’s pie, and pronounce tomato so that it does not rhyme with potato.

Come September, genuine British schoolchildren in natty red-and-grey uniforms will be seen on the streets of Manhattan with the opening of the city’s only British school.

Located next to the UN school, the British International School will serve British expatriates and Anglophile New Yorkers who want their offspring educated with a proper accent and can pay $26,000 (£13,800) a year in fees.

“We are looking forward to the fact that she can spell ‘colour’ with a ‘u’ and we do not have to say ‘zee’ any more,” said Robin Kent, a British expatriate who is moving his eight-year-old daughter Grace from an American school. “The fact that she can learn to play cricket as opposed to baseball is also a real treat,”

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It's a wonderful town

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The new school is importing all its textbooks and library books from Britain to ensure that the spelling is correct.

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Eh, weird. If you are in the states then color is the correct spelling, so they need their own school to be learn it the wrong way :dizzy2: I wonder what the brits would say if the americans in england started an official 'soccer' team, brittain would be too small.

Rule Britannia!!!

:laugh4: What a strange idea.

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Originally Posted by Rythmic

Rule Britannia!!!

:laugh4: What a strange idea.

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I wonder why there aren't any American schools over here. (because the Brits hate the US)

I have such an American accent because my parents are both from America (well my dad is Italian).

There are American schools in the UK. There are German schools, French schools, all sorts.

On the way to reclaiming the thirteen colonies! Huzzah!

Wonder what the teachers union will think.

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Originally Posted by Duke Malcolm

On the way to reclaiming the thirteen colonies! Huzzah!

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Try it and we'll kill you.:skull:

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Originally Posted by Duke Malcolm

On the way to reclaiming the thirteen colonies! Huzzah!

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Meh. You can have New York City...

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Originally Posted by ceasar010

Try it and we'll kill you.:skull:

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What, with your mighty flick-knife of power? ~;) :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by drone

Meh. You can have New York City...

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We'll swap it for Leeds or Manchester. :balloon2:

Wait, you guys say "tomato" wrong?

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Originally Posted by Red Peasant

What, with your mighty flick-knife of power? ~;) :laugh4:

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It's obviously to powerful to be on your streets sense it is illegal in the uk so....yes:laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Wait, you guys say "tomato" wrong?

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No, you do. You just never realised it.

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Originally Posted by drone

Meh. You can have New York City...

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Hey that one was ours!!!

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Wait, you guys say "tomato" wrong?

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I not know anymore.:help:

I say it to-marto

It's to-mayto

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Originally Posted by yesdachi

Wonder what the teachers union will think.

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Well considering the product that the public school system controlled by the teachers union is pumping out of these days, "thinking" will be the last thing they do about this subject!!!:laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Red Peasant

We'll swap it for Leeds or Manchester. :balloon2:

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heh...a double whammy pour moi! Born in Manchester, live 2 miles from the Leeds border.

Middlesbrough would be a better bet, it's the worst place in England to live.

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Originally Posted by InsaneApache

Middlesbrough would be a better bet, it's the worst place in England to live.

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I refer you to the Observer's immortal quote about my home town, "Gillingham makes Middlesbrough look like Monte Carlo"

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It's to-mayto

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It's Solanum lycopersicum.

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Originally Posted by English assassin

I refer you to the Observer's immortal quote about my home town, "Gillingham makes Middlesbrough look like Monte Carlo"

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Haha, cutting. Still, at least it's not constantly on fire, like Newport. Arson capital of the UK, woo!

I've never thought about it before, but there seems to be a correlation between a town having a transporter bridge and a town being a complete dump.

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Originally Posted by The_Doctor

It's Solanum lycopersicum.

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Hands down,that does not rhyme with potato. ~D

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Originally Posted by ceasar010

It's to-mayto

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Well, according to the thread title, it's either that or to-maRto ... I think that in this case I'll go with to-mayto. :laugh4:

That is by the odd English pronunciation of English.
We (well-bred) Scots speak the purest from of English that there ever has been. "tomahto" is how one should pronounce the word, not "tomarto" nor "tomayto".

Let's just eat the stinkin' thing and go out for beer afterwards. :medievalcheers:

I would love to see what would happen if they opened up this school to the public; a few blocks in Little Italy for example. Hilarity would follow.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Let's just eat the stinkin' thing and go out for beer afterwards. :medievalcheers:

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All right. Just so long as it is proper beer, and not that silly American yellow stuff...

And on top of this, I heard on the radio this morning that New York is getting its own print run of The Times (that's The Times, not The London Times, we got the name first and don't have to qualify it!!)

Coincidence or evidence of a widespread conspiracy to take over?

All it needs now is a quick change to the consitution so Tony can stand (or shoud that be run ? ~:) ) for President after Dubya...

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Originally Posted by InsaneApache

heh...a double whammy pour moi! Born in Manchester, live 2 miles from the Leeds border.

Middlesbrough would be a better bet, it's the worst place in England to live.

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Lol! So Middlesbrough leap-frogged Hull to the title. Things must be bad there. :laugh4:

So do these rhyme? (my latin is about as good as Bush's Engrish)

Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum tuberosum

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Originally Posted by Papewaio

So do these rhyme? (my latin is about as good as Bush's Engrish)

Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum tuberosum

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Well, they obviously rhyme, but they don't scan the same.

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Originally Posted by Fragony

Hey that one was ours!!!

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lol, New Amsterdam?

And I thought the Swedish ruled America! :idea2:

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Originally Posted by Red Peasant

Well, they obviously rhyme, but they don't scan the same.

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Not that obvious to me, I thought the sicum vs sum might have a silent end and all a hard c vs s... leaving a rhyme of k to s.

Scan the same? As in read?

So at least the scientific names of tomato and potato rhyme...

EDIT Thanks Red.

Anyone who puts an 'r' in 'tomato' is an idiot.

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Originally Posted by GoreBag

Anyone who puts an 'r' in 'tomato' is an idiot.

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That's me sorted out then.

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Class.

Seriously, though, when I read 'tomarto', I imagined some Yankee making annoying, short 'a' monopthongs out of everything he said. "Tomarto" ended up rhyming with 'Djakarta'.

To the victor go the spoils. In this case, we beat you guys hundreds of years ago, and the spoils are getting to determine what is the correct spelling of words. I.e., color, civilization, labor, etc., and determining what to call trunks (not boots) of cars and trucks (not lorries).

Or, we could go by popular vote in the USA and Britain. ~;p

Crazed Rabbit

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Won? I always thought of Britain in that scenario was the older brother who successfully married off his ugly fat sister...

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Intelligence, wit and wordplay is not a function of ones mass nor is it a function of having the most lowest common denominator.