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Do you correct people when they say Zucchini?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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I do with 'less' and 'fewer' I know I shouldn't, I try not to, I know correcting other people's grammar makes you look a complete cock but I can't help it sometimes.
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Actually, how do you say it? Whenever I see it I think 'Zoo - kee- nee'.
*Hides*
I don't really get to use it in everyday conversation though. In fact, I don't think I've ever spoken the word, only read it. My life now feels empty and hollow.
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Yes I do! I'm pretty mild mannered normally but this, THIS, this boils my piss like nothing else! I just want to get the damn thing batter them half to death and then insert it where the sun don't shine!
Bloody americanisms!
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Correct in what way?
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Actually, how do you say it? Whenever I see it I think 'Zoo - kee- nee'.
It's pronounced "cor-jet," is the point the OP was making, I believe.
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Bloody americanisms!
Is it not them using the Italian word whereas we use the French one?
How is one more or less wrong than the other?
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never ever ever had anyone say it to me. i'm not upper-middle class like yeti though... i'll stick to me roadside cafe's and fry ups 4 times a day fank yoo!
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Egg plant.
The vegetarian's excuse to eat chicken.
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Surely we use the Norman word?
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Phil I wasn't brought up, I was dragged up!
But I know what's right and proper and Courgette is just that, right and proper!
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Are they not baby marrows?
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listen sunshine, you shop in waitrose. therefore you're a better person than me. i'm man enough to accept that.
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A summer squash I believe.
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Is he the manager of Chelsea?
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Ooh I like being called sunshine. In all honesty what someone calls courgettes though... couldn't give a fig.
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kevonakona - Member
Egg plant.The vegetarian's excuse to eat chicken.
explain
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Aubergine is called and egg plant in certain uncivilised parts of the world but everyone knows that eggs come from chickens therefore an egg plant is a chicken.
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So I can grow chickens from an eggplant? Awesome.
*runs off to catch money spiders to buy eggplants with*
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kevonakona has a point... you can't argue with that kinda science!
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The Italian word sounds nicer than the French word and they both sound nicer than marrow.
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Ah but that's because some varieties of eggplant fruit are white & look like eggs.
As for courgette / zucchini - does it matter?
Same as for broccoli - whatever the othername isPosted 1 year ago # -
Ah but that's because some varieties of eggplant fruit are white & look like eggs.
...when small and unripe.
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No, i don't "correct" people when they say zucchini, because i'm not a nob.
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No, i don't "correct" people when they say zucchini, because i'm not a nob.
+1
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finbar... I think you'll find it's 'knob'
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heureusement, personne n'a mentionné la cuillère sale
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courgette = French
zucchini = Italian
baby marrow = EnglishPedantry is a short cut to a sad and miserable life IMHO, especially when it based on a false premise, as above.
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No, i don't "correct" people when they say zucchini, because i'm not a nob.
And you've had that confirmed by whom?
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Let's hope no-one says "fire roads".
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fire roads
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I saw a film once that starred an eggplant, a corgette and latterly a rather impressive marrow. I can't say I found the co stars use of language was uppermost in my mind at the time.
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Schotterweg!
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joolsburger - Member
I saw a film once that starred an eggplant, a corgette and latterly a rather impressive marrow...Obviously you were perving on the Zucchinis in bikinis in the the well known serial Bananas in Pyjamas...
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