Talk:tomato tomato

RFV discussion: August 2014–January 2015

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tomato tomato

tomato, tomato

Please attest these spellings. --WikiTiki89 19:56, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

1. 'tomato, tomato', but needs a lot of context

3. He looked at his wife and repeated "Potato, potato; tomato, tomato," three times before Sarah began.

7. "Tomato!" "Tomato!"
8. ? An interesting one with yet another spelling (tom-ot-oh and tam-at-oh).
9. 'tomato/tomato'

I didn't find instances of tomato tomato without punctuation, not that that matters to the search engine, AFAIK. DCDuring TALK 22:42, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

From the previous discussion:

1. • 2010, A. Sole, The Dot Comparable, page 74:

     'Oh tomato, tomato. Now come on Luke,' said Bob as he began to run away, 'I think customs is this way.'

Another variation from the previous discussion:

1. 2012, MJR, I Am Dianna, page 150:
   • “At least allow me the pleasure of torturing—or is it seducing— him?” She put her finger to her cheek as if pondering. “Oh well, you say potato—I say potato, tomato—tomato. Who's to say they aren't the same thing?”

Cheers! bd2412 T 22:47, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Punctuation-only variants using the "tomato" spelling that are not entries lead to the failed-search page with [[tomato tomato]] and [[tomato, tomato]] at the top. [[tomayto tomahto only appears on the second page, #36 among the pages offered. For us to not have a "tomato" form of this would be completely unsatisfactory, even if tomato, tomato were not attestable. DCDuring TALK 23:33, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

• Based on the search results, I would be satisfied with tomato tomato redirecting to the reasonably well attested tomato, tomato. bd2412 T 00:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

  I agree. --WikiTiki89 00:41, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

  Done. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:56, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

  Unstriking to give people a bit more time to look for citations of the comma-less form. --WikiTiki89 03:47, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

  As you wish, but I spent quite a bit of time searching and turned up zero, so I hold out no hope for coming up with a CFI-worthy number. bd2412 T 03:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

RFV-failed the comma-less form; the comma form passed some time ago. (The comma-less form can stay as a redirect, as it is now, as far as I'm concerned.) - -sche (discuss) 16:58, 25 January 2015 (UTC)