You say tomayto and I say tomarto...

[InsaneApache]

Civilization comes to New York...

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,”

It's a wonderful town

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

[Fragony]

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 I wonder what the brits would say if the americans in england started an official 'soccer' team, brittain would be too small.

[naut]

Rule Britannia!!!

What a strange idea.

[Lorenzo_H]

Rule Britannia!!!

What a strange idea.

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).

[English assassin]

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

[Duke Malcolm]

On the way to reclaiming the thirteen colonies! Huzzah!

[yesdachi]

Wonder what the teachers union will think.

[scooter_the_shooter]

On the way to reclaiming the thirteen colonies! Huzzah!

Try it and we'll kill you.

[drone]

On the way to reclaiming the thirteen colonies! Huzzah!

Meh. You can have New York City...

[Red Peasant]

Try it and we'll kill you.

What, with your mighty flick-knife of power?

[Red Peasant]

Meh. You can have New York City...

We'll swap it for Leeds or Manchester.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Wait, you guys say "tomato" wrong?

[scooter_the_shooter]

What, with your mighty flick-knife of power?

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

[Duke Malcolm]

Wait, you guys say "tomato" wrong?

No, you do. You just never realised it.

[Fragony]

Meh. You can have New York City...

Hey that one was ours!!!

[The_Doctor]

Wait, you guys say "tomato" wrong?

I not know anymore.

I say it to-marto

[scooter_the_shooter]

It's to-mayto

[Devastatin Dave]

Wonder what the teachers union will think.

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!!!

[InsaneApache]

We'll swap it for Leeds or Manchester.

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.

[English assassin]

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

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

[The_Doctor]

It's to-mayto

It's Solanum lycopersicum.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

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

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.

[yesdachi]

It's Solanum lycopersicum.

Hands down,that does not rhyme with potato.

[Keba]

It's to-mayto

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.

[Duke Malcolm]

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".

[GeneralHankerchief]

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

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.

[Duke Malcolm]

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

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

[Flavius Clemens]

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...

[Red Peasant]

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.

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

[Papewaio]

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

Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum tuberosum