Growing up there was an easy demarcation between two sides of the family, there were those that pronounced the word tomato like tom-A-toe (with the A as in neighbor or weigh) and then there were those that called them tom-AH-toes (with an AH as in why yes, Ah'd love a mint julep or ah don't know what's wrong with my slaves these days). You can guess which side of the divide I was on.
Anyway, there's a stupid little song that grew out of it. It goes something like this, "You say tom-A-toe, I say you're stupid, you say tom-AH-toe, I still say you're stupid."
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