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the way you say tomato right before someone else says it wrong on purpose.
means a jokey pronunciation used to signal that a disagreement is minor and not worth fighting over.
from popularized by the 1937 gershwin song let's call the whole thing off, which pairs tomayto/tomahto and potayto/potahto to mock lovers' quibbles over trivial differences.
song lyricgershwin rhymed it with tomahto in 1937
real splitreflects actual us vs british vowel pronunciation
shorthand phrasetomayto tomahto now means whatever, semantics