Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 15, 2010
May 14, 2010
May 16, 2010
Transcript:
Lucy: So what's the verdict? Are you still grounded? Danae: Well... Yes and no. All I have to do is clean up the piles of trash, laundry and dirty dishes in my room, then I'm free! Lucy: Whoa... Hold on there. You told me those are load-bearing pillars. Danae: Yeah, well... ToMAYto, ToMAHto. Now hold the trash bag while I shovel.
Hey, smizzlybob. Right about tuh-mah-toh – had English not experienced the Great Vowel Shift beginning in the 1400s. A-words got to remain “ah” on the Continent but became “ay” in England. I’ve never made peace with it, but it is what it is.