Tomatoes Or Tomatos? - Lawless English

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  1. egc52556 22 July 2014 / 15:44

    I don’t doubt your right, but what’s the reason behind these spellings? I’m sure I will continue to misspell these if the only way to get these right is by memorization.

    Thanks, E

  2. lkl 1 August 2014 / 08:08

    Good question – I don’t know. It might have something to do with which language each word evolved from.

    “I don’t doubt your you’re right” 🙂

  3. ed 1 February 2015 / 03:10

    Why not just drop the all the “e”s in the “es”s and simplify everything??? Instead of just causing pointless confusion….

  4. Lacie 8 April 2015 / 15:33

    This post is mostly incorrect. The plural form of tomato is tomatos and the plural form of potato is potatos because they are nouns. The -es suffix is designated for verbs. The -s suffix is designated for nouns. A person may find video of a first grade student correcting the Vice President of the United States on this very issue.

  5. lkl 9 April 2015 / 06:16

    Wrong on all counts – check a dictionary. Some verbs need just -s (walks, eats, puts) and some nouns need -es (boxes, buses, potatoes).

    As for Quayle, he’s the one who corrected the student, incorrectly telling him to add an e to the end of the singular word potato. http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/01/spelling-can-be-a-hot-potatoe/

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