Forum menu
If not, you should.
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.
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.
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!
Correct in what way?
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.
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?
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!
Egg plant.
The vegetarian's excuse to eat chicken.
Surely we use the Norman word?
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!
Are they not baby marrows?
listen sunshine, you shop in waitrose. therefore you're a better person than me. i'm man enough to accept that.
A summer squash I believe.
Is he the manager of Chelsea?
Ooh I like being called sunshine. In all honesty what someone calls courgettes though... couldn't give a fig.
kevonakona - Member
Egg plant.The vegetarian's excuse to eat chicken.
explain
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.
😯
So I can grow chickens from an eggplant? Awesome.
*runs off to catch money spiders to buy eggplants with*
kevonakona has a point... you can't argue with that kinda science!
The Italian word sounds nicer than the French word and they both sound nicer than marrow.
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 is
Ah but that's because some varieties of eggplant fruit are white & look like eggs.
...when small and unripe.
No, i don't "correct" people when they say zucchini, because i'm not a nob.
No, i don't "correct" people when they say zucchini, because i'm not a nob.
+1
finbar... I think you'll find it's 'knob' 🙂
heureusement, personne n'a mentionné la cuillère sale
courgette = French
zucchini = Italian
baby marrow = English
Pedantry is a short cut to a sad and miserable life IMHO, especially when it based on a false premise, as above.
No, i don't "correct" people when they say zucchini, because i'm not a nob.
And you've had that confirmed by whom?
Let's hope no-one says "fire roads".
fire roads
😈
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.
Schotterweg!
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...
🙂
finbar... I think you'll find it's 'knob'
Hehe.
And you've had that confirmed by whom?
It's just a relative judgement i'm making based on your original post.
Zing!
i would but no one ever says it
Ah, there was me thinking that the zucchini was a posh exotic veg, like fennel or artichoke...
I'm not really one for vegetables. :/
Surely you've had a courgette with olive oil Mrs Toast?
Oi iDave NO!!!!! that's so wrong.
OK, olive oil, plus tahini, garlic, lemon juice...
Surely you've had a courgette with olive oil Mrs Toast?
I'm not sure how to take that!
[img] 
[/img]
Yeah, I roast courgettes quite often with peppers and onions, didn't know they had a different name, like some sort of vegetable superhero.
No. I'd consider correcting someone who incorrectly capitalises the name of a vegetable though.
And I'd consider correcting it if you did