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  • Do you correct people when they say Zucchini?
  • rewski
    Free Member

    If not, you should.

    Tiger6791
    Full Member

    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.

    MrsToast
    Free Member

    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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    TheSouthernYeti
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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!

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Correct in what way?

    Cougar
    Full Member

    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.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    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?

    philconsequence
    Free Member

    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!

    kevonakona
    Free Member

    Egg plant.

    The vegetarian’s excuse to eat chicken.

    rewski
    Free Member

    Surely we use the Norman word?

    TheSouthernYeti
    Free Member

    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!

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Are they not baby marrows?

    philconsequence
    Free Member

    listen sunshine, you shop in waitrose. therefore you’re a better person than me. i’m man enough to accept that.

    rewski
    Free Member

    A summer squash I believe.

    mastiles_fanylion
    Free Member

    Is he the manager of Chelsea?

    TheSouthernYeti
    Free Member

    Ooh I like being called sunshine. In all honesty what someone calls courgettes though… couldn’t give a fig.

    rob-jackson
    Free Member

    kevonakona – Member
    Egg plant.

    The vegetarian’s excuse to eat chicken.

    explain

    kevonakona
    Free Member

    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.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    😯

    TheSouthernYeti
    Free Member

    So I can grow chickens from an eggplant? Awesome.

    *runs off to catch money spiders to buy eggplants with*

    philconsequence
    Free Member

    kevonakona has a point… you can’t argue with that kinda science!

    Bimbler
    Free Member

    The Italian word sounds nicer than the French word and they both sound nicer than marrow.

    Moses
    Full Member

    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

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Ah but that’s because some varieties of eggplant fruit are white & look like eggs.

    …when small and unripe.

    finbar
    Free Member

    No, i don’t “correct” people when they say zucchini, because i’m not a nob.

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    No, i don’t “correct” people when they say zucchini, because i’m not a nob.

    +1

    TheSouthernYeti
    Free Member

    finbar… I think you’ll find it’s ‘knob’ 🙂

    iDave
    Free Member

    heureusement, personne n’a mentionné la cuillère sale

    I_did_dab
    Free Member

    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.

    rewski
    Free Member

    No, i don’t “correct” people when they say zucchini, because i’m not a nob.

    And you’ve had that confirmed by whom?

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    Let’s hope no-one says “fire roads”.

    philconsequence
    Free Member

    fire roads
    😈

    joolsburger
    Free Member

    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.

    MSP
    Full Member

    Schotterweg!

    epicyclo
    Full Member

    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
    Free Member

    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.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Zing!

    kimbers
    Full Member

    i would but no one ever says it

    MrsToast
    Free Member

    Ah, there was me thinking that the zucchini was a posh exotic veg, like fennel or artichoke…

    I’m not really one for vegetables. :/

    iDave
    Free Member

    Surely you’ve had a courgette with olive oil Mrs Toast?

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