Tomato or Tomatoe

Sippies or sippys???

I see it both ways all the time. And when I am typing it out I have to think about how to spell it. How about you?

 

Ummm, I guess it's sippies for me.

 

Sippies here Rach.

 

I would have to say sippies but I am not sure if that is the right spelling. I'm a terrible speller!

 

Its sippies! Always!!!

 

sippies ... but what does this have to do with tomatoes?

 

Sippies for me as well.

 

Another vote for sippies!

 

sippies

 

QUOTE(caba @ Mar 24 2009, 08:42 PM) [snapback]1243021[/snapback]
but what does this have to do with tomatoes?


I wondered the same thing? ardon:

I spell it sippies, I think. Now that I'm being put under pressure I'm not sure how I spell it! :laughing:

 

I voted Sippies before I saw the other replies!!

 

QUOTE(caba @ Mar 25 2009, 12:42 AM) [snapback]1243021[/snapback]
but what does this have to do with tomatoes?


"You say tomato. I say tomatoe..."

 

QUOTE(DATJMom @ Mar 24 2009, 10:04 PM) [snapback]1243186[/snapback]
"You say tomato. I say tomatoe..."


'Potato, potatoe, tomato, tomatoe!
Let's call the whole thing off!'

:unsure:

 

QUOTE(becky5 @ Mar 25 2009, 02:06 AM) [snapback]1243188[/snapback]
'Potato, potatoe, tomato, tomatoe!
Let's call the whole thing off!'

:unsure:


Ummm, I think we are really showing our age now Becky. :laughing:

 

QUOTE(DATJMom @ Mar 24 2009, 10:09 PM) [snapback]1243191[/snapback]
Ummm, I think we are really showing our age now Becky. :laughing:



:rofl:

 

SIPPIES !!! :laughing:

 

Sippies. Unless your sippy has a sippy and then it would be sippy's sippy. Or if you have multiple sippies and they have a sippy jointly, it would be sippies' sippy.

 

QUOTE(lovelylily @ Mar 24 2009, 10:52 PM) [snapback]1243259[/snapback]
Sippies. Unless your sippy has a sippy and then it would be sippy's sippy. Or if you have multiple sippies and they have a sippy jointly, it would be sippies' sippy.


:huh: :wacko:

 

You say tomato, I say tomahto!

I spell it sippies.

 

QUOTE(seamusnicholas @ Mar 25 2009, 05:00 AM) [snapback]1243375[/snapback]
You say tomato, I say tomahto!


:bow2:

 

I teach English As A Foreign Language (EFL) and the spelling rule is:

nouns ending consonant + y = lose the y and add IES
e.g.
sippy - sippies
hippy - hippies

nouns ending vowel + y = just add S
e.g.
key - keys
monkey - monkeys

Hope that helps!

 

"Sippies" would be the standard way to make a noun ending in "y" plural. There are probably a few exceptions (none that I can think of), but "sippys" would be a major deviation from standard English, and so an unlikely plural form.

eta: Just saw what Rachel said above me after I posted. That's exactly what I was trying to say.