Confusion over Sweet Potato and Yam

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Jessica B. Harris, You Say Potato, I Say Yam. New York Times, Nov. 25, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/opinion/25harris.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=yam&st=cse

Note: The noun "pone" is defined as "[of Algonquian origin] 1. South & Midland  A cake of stiff cornmeal batter shaped into an oval in the palms and baked, fried, or boiled." Webster (3rd ed., 1961).

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