Re: How do you grow brocolli?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > 2. "potatoe" is an acceptable, albeit archaic, spelling.
>
> I'm not so sure about that. It's the way I was taught to spell
> the word, back in the bad old days. I dunno when they dropped
> the "e" on "potatoe" and "tomatoe" (they look funny to me without
> them), but I didn't find those spellings mentioned even as archaic
> in a rather large dictionary just now.
Wikipedia agrees with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potatoe
The archaic spelling is still acceptable with me, however. (Of course, 
that means squat.)

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Kent