History Main / YouSayTomato

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': Lilo, when looking for a dog to adopt from the animal shelter, says, “are there
any aminals in here?”

Not to be confused with ItIsPronouncedTroPay, where somebody pronounces something in an uncommon (or even never-before) way in order to make the word sound fancier. Occasionally overlaps with PronouncingMyNameForYou, if the speaker clarifies that multiple pronunciations is acceptable. May result in GotMeDoingIt.

Not to be confused with ItIsPronouncedTroPay, where somebody pronounces something in an uncommon (or even never-before) way in order to make the word sound fancier. May result in GotMeDoingIt.

* Two different ways of pronouncing "tomato" are shown in an Uber Eats commercial with Creator/MarkHamill and Creator/PatrickStewart.

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': Lilo, when looking for a dog to adopt from the animal shelter, says, “are there any aminals in here?”

* Comedian Creator/RonWhite, in one of his bits, makes fun of a person pronouncing "coupons" as "KOO-puns".

** Interestingly, the way it tends to be alluded to these days is actually opposite to what it meant in the musical. Today, saying "tomayto, tomahto" basically means "that distinction is meaningless, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other." In the musical, the differences are being mentioned because they're actually important signifiers of the class difference which is the main romantic obstacle between the two leads.

Of course, as mentioned above certain words have alternate forms that are considered ''mis''pronunciations, such as "nucular" for nuclear. In this case, this trope can be used to identify a character as having DelusionsOfEloquence, or or to contrast SlobsVsSnobs.

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': Lilo, when looking for a dog to adopt from 5e animal shelter, says, “are there any aminals in here?”

* Common in the ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' stories, being based on the playacting of a little boy. Notable examples include Woozles (weasels), Heffelumps (elephants), Jagulars (jaguars), Tigger (tiger) and Winnie the Pooh himself (based on Winnipeg, a bear at the London Zoo).

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. They love to deliberately mispronounce names. For instance, Tom Servo said: "Chiy Chiy Rodreh-gweez".

* LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}} of WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} fame calls the main character of Franchise/DonkeyKong Mary-oh, even correcting himself when he says it normally.

* And while we're on the topic of Creator/HannaBarbera, Touche Turtle always pronounced the w in sword.

* Children often pronounce words differently, such as "malk" for milk, "shigger" for sugar and "pasgeti" for spaghetti

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Nee'Lix gives the line straight when introduced to the tomatoes in Voyager's hydroponics garden.

-->'''Captain Janeway:''' It's eether, I mean either... never mind.

Let's call the whole thing off.''
-->-- '''Fred Astaire''' to Ginger Rogers in the film ''Film/ShallWeDance,'' The TropeNamer

General consensus is that if you encounter somebody say tomahto rather than tomayto (or vice versa) it is considered rude to point it out, but in fiction for some reason people tend to like commenting, possibly due to the FunnyForeigner trope.

Of course as mentioned above certain words have alternate forms that are considered mispronunciations, such as nuclear/nukular. In this case, this trope can be used to contrast SlobsVsSnobs.

* The song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (quoted at the top of the page) was originally written because Ira Gershwin noticed that Ginger Rogers habitually said "ee-ther" and Fred Astaire said "eye-ther."

* In the 'Odd Moments in History' segment of ''Series/OddSquad'', the world's fighting over the pronunciation angers the tomatoes. In 1951,[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer the tomatoes separate from their vines and fly to the tropical island of Galapanogostoflonfleesilvaniaopolis]]. Odd Squad agrees to help, on the condition that they be pronounced "to-mee-tos."

* In the 'Odd Moments in History' segment of ''Series/OddSquad'', the world's fighting over the pronunciation angers the tomatoes. In 1951, the tomatoes separate from their vines and fly to the tropical island of Galapanogostoflonfleesilvaniaopolis. Odd Squad agrees to help, on the condition that they be pronounced "to-mee-tos."

* In ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' during "Zero to Hero," two of the Muses can't agree on how to pronounce "vase." "And they slapped his face on every vase!" "On every ''vahs''!"
* ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'': Lilo, when looking for a dog to adopt from 5e animal shelter, says, “are there any aminals in here?”

* In the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry cartoon, "Springtime for Thomas", Butch the cat reads a fake lover letter addressed to him.

-->'''Butch:''' I have always admired your fis-i-cue.

* The peculiarly "posh" pronunciation of words used by the Arts Curator in Literature/{{Discworld}}'s ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'' draws a lot of comment from Nobby and Colon particularly, complete with its own lampshade and characteristic merciless mocking. Leads to plenty of exchanges like this:

** Similarly, in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', one of the things that infuriates Sam Vimes about Lord Rust is that the man pronounces "years" as "hyahs".

* In ''Film/ThePinkPanther2006'', Inspector Jacques Clouseau would like to buy a "damburger" and would also like to rent a "rhume" for the night and pick up a "massage" at the front desk of a hotel. It's worth noting that he didn't do this in the [[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 original film]]; they were one of many embellishments of his character for the sequels.

--'''Judd:''' You say "tomayto tomahto", I say "tomahto tomahto."