Magnets.
Those words are unrelated, so why should they conform to the same pattern of conventional spelling? Besides, "backhoe" looks OK with an "e". The other two look frightfully hideous with an "e".
I don't know.
I beg to differ. ALL ho's are edible.
Ha!
hoe
noun
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Origin
Middle English: from Old French houe, of Germanic origin; related to German Haue, also to hew.
po·ta·to
noun
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Origin
mid 16th century: from Spanish patata, variant of Taino batata ‘sweet potato.’ The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and gained its current sense in the late 16th century.
to·ma·to
noun
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Origin
early 17th century: from French, Spanish, or Portuguese tomate, from Nahuatl tomatl .
we have to build grammar wall now. :(
I'm depressed
Are you bored or what? There are no rules to this in the English language or any language where every word follows any rule like this.
I have no clue and I don't have the thyme to lok it up ;)
I beg to differ. Un-ripe tomato's are yellow and so are many backhoes...
Potato, patata
Tomato, tomatl
You say eether and I say eyether
no more bored than anyone else sitting at their KB hanging out on the Mug :)
They played the same joke on Hollywood Squares once. Sorry, no link. I really wish google had an option to search for "that guy".
