Well, am I lucky I'm born German - we don't have half a dozen different ways of pronouncing a word, we have half a dozen names for a thing. wink

Okay, finally looked it up. According to Wikipedia, I found twenty names for potatoes, all of them of different roots, many of them in a number of different regional variants (spelling, pronunciation). Isn't English simple? goofy

The only known quantity that moves faster than
light is the office grapevine. (from Nan's fabulous Home series)