Guess the play on words: "Potoooooooo," the once-famous racehorse with a strange name.

Potoooooooo was the real name of a successful racehorse of the late 1700s. The name is a kind of play on words. See if you can guess how the name is actually pronounced.

It is not pronounced the way it is spelled--it does not rhyme with "boo" or "coo" or "moo." When spoken aloud, it is actually an ordinary English word. It's the plural form of the word, and ends in s.

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Hint #1:

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Read the name aloud, one letter at a time, using the name of each letter.

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Hint #2:

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The word is the name of a vegetable.

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Hint #3:

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The word is the name for a kind of tuber--a vegetable whose edible part grows underground. It is brown, about the size of a tomato but oval, irregular, and lumpy. The part inside the skin is white. 

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