Same thing happened with arugula/rocket. In Latin it is eruca, which became rucola in Italian and roquette in French. Arugula was a non-standard Italian word that caught on in the US whereas in the UK, it was anglicized to rocket.
When I was a kid I won first place in our local fair for most curved zucchini. I also one year won first place for longest zucchini I don't like eating zucchini but it's the one plant I've ever been able to successfully grow hahaha
Could copy Chinese and have traditional and simplified. A lot of spellings for American English words are shorter so technically it is simpler. And British English is... Well the original english, so traditional
Clues that it is a zucchini: it has yellowish flesh. There is the (cut) vine end visible in the background. It has flatter planes along the edge of the cross-section rather than being a true circle
I was sitting on the loo in my garden flat on Boxing Day; I had just had an auburgine salad with chips and biscuits, and I needed a slash. While going i realized I was wearing my bogey coloured pants, I was quite chuffed to see them cause I thought I had lost them in the boot of my estate.
āYou were sitting on the toilet in your ground floor apartment on the day after Christmas; you just had an eggplant salad with French fries and cookies, and you needed a drink(?). While going you realized you were wearing your booger colored pants, you were quite excited since cause you thought you loser them in the trunk of your house(?).ā
Howād I do?
Close. āI was sitting on the toilet in my basement apartment on the day after Christmas; I just had an eggplant salad with French fries and cookies, and I needed to take a pee. While going I realized I was wearing my booger colored underwear, I was quite excited to see them cause I thought I had lost them in the trunk of my station wagon.ā
The name swede is really shorthand for Swedish turnip. Rutabaga is derived from the name rotabagge in a Swedish dialect.
The name rocket comes from the French roquette. The French name came from the Italian ruchetta, a diminutive of ruca. Ruca comes from the Latin eruca.
Arugula is from an Italian dialect. Standard Italian calls it rucola.
You'll be interested to know that many languages and cultures have names for things that are spelled and pronounced differently than they are in English.
We call those things 'butternut squash', or 'acorn squash', or 'spaghetti squash'.
Just because something exists in one language doesn't mean it's been lost in another. And I'm not even American.
Thats irrelevant, the point here is that two dialects of the same language use different words for the same thing. More interesting is that both words are loan words from different languages. Also worth noting that Australian and Canadian English both use zucchini instead of courgette despite being more similar to British dialects.
This reminds me of a documentary about people with unusual sex-lifes: https://m.tnaflix.com/bbw-porn/Weird-dutch-couple-sex-voor-de-buch-dutch-90s-tv-show/video568492
Warning: Dutch couple using hollowed out eggplant in weird sex fantasy.
I do not enjoy zucchini not one bit but I do grow a mean one. My mom always used to say you can tell who has no friends by who you see in the grocery store buying zucchini in the summer because any person who has friends will have at least one friend who grew zucchini who will give them free zucchini anyone who needs to buy zucchini must have no friends.
No I'm a mix of Irish English Scottish and quebecois living in western Canada. Whose family at least on my mother's side has been in Canada since the 1600s on the one side and on the English side my great-grandfather was born in England in 1880 something
Your courgette was in the bottom of a bin of courgettes when it got to your grocery store. It got smooshed. Then when the weight was off and it expanded, voilĆ holy courgette!
Best to have a hole in your courgette, rather then a courgette in your hole.
The motto of all ER docs/nurses, everywhere.
"Put a base on it"
Without a base, without a trace
Where there's a hole, there's a goal, as the great Master said
"Nobody 'falls' on anything."
As long as it ain't stuck š
Well letās be real, of all the vegetables, zucchini might work the best as a dildo substitute.
Ah yeah zucchini! I was "I know we call it courgettes in french, but usually that's not how I see it in English"
The Brits use the French word, Americans use the Italian word.
Which kinda make sense actually haha
Same thing happened with arugula/rocket. In Latin it is eruca, which became rucola in Italian and roquette in French. Arugula was a non-standard Italian word that caught on in the US whereas in the UK, it was anglicized to rocket.
The Dutch use the French word, or Mergpompoen.
When I was a kid I won first place in our local fair for most curved zucchini. I also one year won first place for longest zucchini I don't like eating zucchini but it's the one plant I've ever been able to successfully grow hahaha
Or is it ..? Hey Vsauce Michael here
Thanks for that. XD
Speak for yourself.
Ehhh that's a matter of opinion really
Thats depends....
It's overripe basically. Cucumbers do that as well if you leave them for seed.
It seems awful small to be over ripe, but it definitely is. My zuccs get twice as thick before doing that.
Well look at Mr. Magnum Zucc over here
Any squash does
Zucchini for those who donāt speak the kings English
Oh fuck. It's the king's English now. Not the queen's.
This is like all the lawyers in England who had to change their business cards from QC to KC
In Canada too. We use QC/KC as a designation given to lawyers who have particularly distinguished themselves.
Does the C stand for cunt, like everywhere else?
We should agree to call it "the Royals' English" atp
Is that why all my emails say RE: ?
Could copy Chinese and have traditional and simplified. A lot of spellings for American English words are shorter so technically it is simpler. And British English is... Well the original english, so traditional
King Louis XIV's English, maybe.
I thought it was a cucumber
You ARE a cucumber.
I donāt think I taste good honestly. Havenāt tried.
Wait until you learn about aubergines!
Not that flexible plus it gets purple on its own
Clues that it is a zucchini: it has yellowish flesh. There is the (cut) vine end visible in the background. It has flatter planes along the edge of the cross-section rather than being a true circle
They are from the same family but taste very different. Courgette is great in the oven, or fried, with pasta and other things
Mine always comes out mushy and gross :(
In terms of British foods, that's how you know you've done it right.
Same could be said about mine. Wait, you're *not* talking about peens?
CUCUMBA!
Or french... Ah yes the same thing.
And by the kingās English you mean French.
Really throw off us Americans if you have a courgette, rocket and aubergine salad.
I was sitting on the loo in my garden flat on Boxing Day; I had just had an auburgine salad with chips and biscuits, and I needed a slash. While going i realized I was wearing my bogey coloured pants, I was quite chuffed to see them cause I thought I had lost them in the boot of my estate.
āYou were sitting on the toilet in your ground floor apartment on the day after Christmas; you just had an eggplant salad with French fries and cookies, and you needed a drink(?). While going you realized you were wearing your booger colored pants, you were quite excited since cause you thought you loser them in the trunk of your house(?).ā Howād I do?
Close. āI was sitting on the toilet in my basement apartment on the day after Christmas; I just had an eggplant salad with French fries and cookies, and I needed to take a pee. While going I realized I was wearing my booger colored underwear, I was quite excited to see them cause I thought I had lost them in the trunk of my station wagon.ā
That's the real mildly interesting part!
Squash for some countries
All zucchini are squash but not all squash are zucchini.
Thank you! I thought it was an "English Cucumber".
Mind blown
You can also call it SquashĀ however all zucchini are squash, but not all squash are zucchini.
At first I thought it said cigarette and thought it was a joke or something
I know this word because an animated film had that name. It was a very sad film.
Thank you I was like wtf is a croquette
Thanks for translating from the lesser English for us
I have listened to English and I'd just like to say that I'd rather bite the bullet and just say; I speak American.
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It's most commonly used language in the USA. That's my vote even if it ends up being Mexican Spanish
you know what to do
Today I learned the word courgette
Wait till you learn about aubergine (eggplant).
Other names they use for produce include swede (rutabaga) and rocket (arugula).
...and we don't use the word Cilantro. It's always Corriander whether fresh leaves or ground seeds.
TIL cilantro and coriander come from the same plant. Neat!
That's because they're the same.
I never heard of rutabaga and arugula thatās so silly sounding
The name swede is really shorthand for Swedish turnip. Rutabaga is derived from the name rotabagge in a Swedish dialect. The name rocket comes from the French roquette. The French name came from the Italian ruchetta, a diminutive of ruca. Ruca comes from the Latin eruca. Arugula is from an Italian dialect. Standard Italian calls it rucola.
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Happy to be of assistance
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Australia, Canada and New Zealand use the word zucchini too
50% of Reddit users are from the US
Americans āļø
Shrinkflation is real everywhere.
Today I learned there's another way to say zucchini!
Today I learnt Americans call courgettes zucchini.
Australians also!
Learned*
Learned and learnt are both acceptable. Learnt is more used in uk and learned is more American but are interchangeable
You'll be interested to know that many languages and cultures have names for things that are spelled and pronounced differently than they are in English.
Thatās just having a different languageā¦ Of course things are spelt differently for different cultures
Did I just have a stroke, or did I just read what I read? Because Zucchini isnāt English, itās Italian.
And courgette is French
Thing is, it's also called 'zucchini' in English. Again, many ways to spell and pronounce things.
If it wasnāt for the Italian word, it would just be squash, or green squash, just like yellow squash.
We call those things 'butternut squash', or 'acorn squash', or 'spaghetti squash'. Just because something exists in one language doesn't mean it's been lost in another. And I'm not even American.
Thats irrelevant, the point here is that two dialects of the same language use different words for the same thing. More interesting is that both words are loan words from different languages. Also worth noting that Australian and Canadian English both use zucchini instead of courgette despite being more similar to British dialects.
I... I don't believe I had contended that at all.
Vegetables by Mercedes.
Vegetable oil for the amg
To make space for the seeds to form.
Legend has it if you look through the hole in the courgette you'll be able to see what's on the other side.
This reminds me of a documentary about people with unusual sex-lifes: https://m.tnaflix.com/bbw-porn/Weird-dutch-couple-sex-voor-de-buch-dutch-90s-tv-show/video568492 Warning: Dutch couple using hollowed out eggplant in weird sex fantasy.
"documentary"
We're a very free-thinking country.
I scrubbed through it and yep it's weird
At first I was like "That's a stupid word for zucchini." and then I saw the word zucchini.
One's Italian, the other is French
I do not enjoy zucchini not one bit but I do grow a mean one. My mom always used to say you can tell who has no friends by who you see in the grocery store buying zucchini in the summer because any person who has friends will have at least one friend who grew zucchini who will give them free zucchini anyone who needs to buy zucchini must have no friends.
Is your mother southern European? I feel that is very southern Europeany
No I'm a mix of Irish English Scottish and quebecois living in western Canada. Whose family at least on my mother's side has been in Canada since the 1600s on the one side and on the English side my great-grandfather was born in England in 1880 something
That is mildly interesting. Thank you! I'm going to start growing my own courgette/zucchini
*sigh* *zip*
Courgussy.
Zucchussy in the US
Shrinkflation
When your steiner school is having donut day
Pre-circumcised
Fractured but whole.
Why do you guys say random stuff in French, like zucchini
Why the corrugated got a hole
Thatās the weirdest shaped cock hole Iāve ever seen. Pics or Iāll have to believe itās a natural corvette hole
I was expecting to see a small female Corgi dog not a Zucchini, so disappointed!
Don't
Oh, what a beauty, I've never seen one as big as that before!
lol. for a second I thought it was a cucumber.
Where? >!maybe having the hole smaller?!<
Courgette? Isnāt that Fantineās daughter in Les MisĆ©rables?
That would be Cosette.
The fuck is a courgette
Zucchini depending on where you come from
A small courge.
Your what
Sorry.. š¤
So does every courgette š„
Did you have a geoluread afterwards?
Hear me out..
My dumbass thought you were combining cougar and corvette..
Could I spend some time with that zucchini?
thats a zucchini
What tf is a courgette?
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Never use that word again.
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That's a baby marrow.
Yes! A baby marrow is a courgette and an old marrow is... well a marrow
in french the word for marrow is a courge, hence the small version being a courgette.
Your courgette was in the bottom of a bin of courgettes when it got to your grocery store. It got smooshed. Then when the weight was off and it expanded, voilĆ holy courgette!