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The Tomato Pronunciation
The great vowel shift was a series of changes that radically altered the pronunciation of the long vowels in english between the fifteenth and seventeenth cent. Chambers suggests people adopted the a pronunciation of tomato to match how the word potato was already pronounced in north america. The tomato pronunciation was further entrenchd throughout the nineteenth century by the flood of britons relocating to canada for cheap land.
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