to-ma-toes or to-mah-toes?
po-ta-toes or po-tah-toes?
ah let's just call the whole *** thing off....

Ah yes, indeed - but it is a well known fact that the authentic ending to this one is
"let's Carl the whole thing Orff".
Now - given the capacity in this forum for attracting plenteous commentary of all kinds about a certain famous piano work by Sorabji, let us perhaps consider in the present context the terms "Opus" and "Opera"; should we be expected to conclude from any such consideration that inveterate stage composers such as Mozart, Donizetti, Wagner, Verdi, Strauss, Puccini, Henze, Britten et al all also aspired to create series of vast multi-hour piano works but never quite got around to their composition?
Just to add to the fray, let us consider also the fact that a certain great American composer wrote a piece during World War II which is known to this day as his "Symphony No. 1" yet - despite there never having been anything which the said composer has subsequently chosen to entitle "Symphony No. 2" - what is arguably his greatest orchestral piece of all, from more than half a century later, is nevertheless called "Symphonia".
And finally, let us remember that the second and third of the five movements of Busoni's monumental piano concerto are respectively entitled "pizza giocosa" and "pizza seriosa" - and he was an Italian, so who should argue with this?
Now, before I write anything even sillier than that, I will shut up and stop.
Best,
Alistair