Say What Now?

[Geek King]

I had been under the impression that it was Potato . . . and that both Potato and Potatoe are acceptable variants.
(. . . then again, a quick check to Wiki tells me that Potatoe fell out of use in the 19th century and is now considered incorrect. . . . nevermind, I guess.)

Both ways are still valid for Scrabble, the only real way to tell whether a word is "real" or not.

[Pinkie]

I was born and raised in Wisconsin, and have been living next door in Michigan for the past 20 years, and Michiganders still tell me I have a "Wisconsin accent". One of my friends even tells me that I pronounce Wisconsin "funny". I don't hear it myself, unless I spend a week or more with my family in Wisconsin and it gets really thick, and you'll hear a lot of "ya hey's" from me. Apparently each state has it's own accent ....Go figure.

[Seshat]

That led to me being teased about my accent the entire time I was growing up & people in my own hometown asking me where I was from.

Me too - and I didn't even have family reasons. My family's all several-generation Australian.

Yet I've been told my accent is English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Welsh - pretty much anything BUT Australian.