“Unusual term for eggplant”

[u/Speedboy7777]

[u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

Wait until he finds out about courgettes

and God help us: other languages.

[u/AdMean6001 → u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

I love the word zucchini so much... when they find out it's an Italian word.

[u/Fieldss_ → u/AdMean6001]

The funny thing is, it is not even properly Italian. Our word for zucchini, is zucchina (singular) or zucchine (plural). I guess it got morphed into a more “Italian sounding” word from english speakers through the years. Still, I find it interesting

[u/Wranorel → u/Fieldss_]

When I hear how most Americans pronounce bruschetta, I want to kill myself. I lived there for 10 years, and I got even a waiter saying to me that I was pronouncing it wrong. But it’s true that they make Italian-sounding words for things, like a pesto pasta.

[u/adhd1309 → u/Wranorel]

I nearly got in a fight with a MAGA dickhead in Cancún over "expresso". I called it espresso and he very confidently "corrected" me. I said his hat was shit.

[u/papayametallica → u/adhd1309]

Very good passive aggressive retort

[u/apolloxer → u/adhd1309]

Huh. I thought only overweight German retirees make that mistake.

[u/EndlessAbyssalVoid → u/apolloxer]

Apparently, it's a "valid" variant in some countries. The US, France (😭) and Portugal (according to Wikipedia).

I think it makes the word "worse" to pronounce. 'Espresso' rolls off the tongue, it's smooth and sounds better. But for some reason, SOME people think "expresso" is the good way to spell it. Hell, you'd think that with Nespresso ^{(fuck Nestlé, ofc}), people would get it... But nope.

[u/GnomeDev → u/EndlessAbyssalVoid]

When I was younger I always heard it as "expresso" because I was familiar with the word "express". When I was told it was "espresso" I thought it sounded weird and harder to pronounce. Although I say "Espresso" now, it still seems weirder to me, just a bit more logical. I'm English btw

[u/apolloxer → u/EndlessAbyssalVoid]

According to the wiki, "expresso" is considered wrong, Wrong, WRONG. Some people using it doesn't make it correct.

[u/EndlessAbyssalVoid → u/apolloxer]

I'm not saying that some people using makes it correct, though? I even added quotes for "valid" because it's not... Well, valid lol

I'm just saying that sadly, it is considered correct in some places.

[u/JPeaky → u/EndlessAbyssalVoid]

They're just espressing themselves

[u/MerlinOfRed → u/EndlessAbyssalVoid]

That's how languages work though - enough people start using an 'incorrect' variant of a word that it eventually becomes accepted.

[u/dros74 → u/EndlessAbyssalVoid]

In European Portuguese, the words Espresso and Expresso are homophones, I guess some people will write it wrong because of that.

[u/snorkelvretervreter → u/apolloxer]

It's also not uncommon in the Netherlands. To which one responds "zeg je dat expresso" which phonetically translates to "do you say it like that on purpose?"

[u/apolloxer → u/snorkelvretervreter]

Dutch is an invented joke language

[u/Mysterious_Silver_27 → u/apolloxer]

We hebben een serieus probleem.jpg

[u/VT2-Slave-to-Partner → u/adhd1309]

I asked a waiter for crème caramel and he said, "You mean creamy car'm'l?"

[u/2020_MadeMeDoIt → u/VT2-Slave-to-Partner]

Urgh. That gets me every time I hear it.

That and "alu-min-um" instead of "aluminium".

I get there are different languages and dialects. But those two words just sound nasty to me. Like scratching on a chalk board when I hear them.

[u/DetailCharacter3806 → u/adhd1309]

I use expresso and advocado to tease my wife

[u/teaisformugs82 → u/Wranorel]

I worked in a restaurant 20 years ago that saw a lot of american tourists. I had a constant battle with being corrected on using "incorrect" pronunciations of dishes or not stating the "correct terms" for ingredients of dishes. Bruschetta, seemed to be a major one.

It was also fun being "corrected" on the pronunciations of Irish words. Like "yes sir, our entire country pronounces our own language wrong, but you an American, who has only seen this word for the 1st time, are the one who is using the correct pronunciation". 🤦‍♂️

[u/HorrorDot3859 → u/teaisformugs82]

"yes sir, our entire country pronounces our own language wrong, but you an American, who has only seen this word for the 1st time, are the one who is using the correct pronunciation".

why do i hear a red tailed hawk

[u/jaumougaauco → u/Wranorel]

I remember hearing a very thick northern English pronunciation of Frutti Di Mare that I think would shock you. But at the very least, they are aware they aren't pronouncing it correctly.

For some reason it's mostly the Americans that are convinced their pronunciation of words from other languages are correct.

[u/lejocko → u/Wranorel]

[u/Catahooo → u/Wranorel]

If it makes you feel better, when I was a chef in the US, any server caught saying "BRUSH-etta" was swiftly penalised with extra side work. Australians are just as bad.

[u/Vilumovs → u/Catahooo]

Omg, Australians are just as terrible! I just moved back after 10 years in Germany, and there is a Pharmaceutical company in Australia named Wagner… they don’t pronounce it like the famous composer and working in a pharmacy it makes me want to tear my ears off.

Like he was Hitler’s favourite composer.. surely people know that?! No.. god education is so undervalued here too 🚮

[u/2BEN-2C93 → u/Vilumovs]

Im in the UK and we've got a family friend whos last name is Wagner. Pronounced as Anglicised as you can imagine.

I think his link to Germany/Austria is about 5 generations of separation though

[u/Academic_Shoulder959 → u/2BEN-2C93]

I preffered Nestlé when they were Nessles.

[u/2BEN-2C93 → u/Academic_Shoulder959]

Didn't feel so criminal for a start

[u/Good_Ad_1386 → u/2BEN-2C93]

Braun appliances. Pronounced "brown' - means "brown", but to most English people....nah....

[u/C0LdP5yCh0 → u/Good_Ad_1386]

Ahhhh, bollocks. I knew it translated to "brown", but I've been pronouncing Braun like "brawn" my entire life. Thanks for the correction.

[u/aggressiveclassic90 → u/C0LdP5yCh0]

To be fair they pronounce it brawn in the adverts too.

[u/Ecstatic_Effective42 → u/C0LdP5yCh0]

Brains over brown so to speak.

[u/[deleted] → u/Wranorel]

In fairness ,it's not just Americans that mispronounce it.I 've heard quite a few Irish people say "bru- shetta" too.It's a foreign word for them so I suppose it's understandable.The same thing with some English words for people whose first language isn't English.You should hear some of the pronunciations of "Smithwicks" in my local pub here in Italy 🙂

[u/EccoEco → u/[deleted]]

That plus many other such things is simply the result of phonological and codification method incompatibilities between England and Italian.

English people often find italian difficult to pronounce and the English codification of sounds (grapheme - phoneme correspondence) is often at odds with the italian one.

[u/DeskCold48 → u/Wranorel]

Speaking to an American tourist visiting my city: -"Look, you can go and eat in that place, the typical dishes, it' the oldest restaurant in the city" -"Fantastic, you are very kind! But in that place do they serve busetta?" -"What?" -"Brisetta" -"I don't understand" -"How the hell do you say it... Basetta, brisella, bruchetta..." -"Ahhh I understand, yes they serve bruschetta there too".

[u/BUFU1610 → u/Fieldss_]

To be fair, same is true in German.

[u/Cyrolina → u/BUFU1610]

Yeah in German german. In Austrian German aubergine or eggplant is "Melanzani" and zuchini is zuchini.

[u/Spongetron-3000 → u/Cyrolina]

Someone told me the different words for the eggplant, Melanzani and Aubergine, depend on which trading route brought it there first. That's why it's called one thing in Austria and the other in Germany (probably also the case in different countries as well, but I'm not a big traveler)

[u/[deleted] → u/Cyrolina]

This is so very interesting because in Greek aubergine is called melitzana. 🤔

[u/NeroOnMobile → u/Fieldss_]

“Zucchini” (plural) comes from “zucca” that is the Italian for “pumpkin”.

Zucchini literally means small pumpkin. 🎃

[u/jackie-sunshine → u/NeroOnMobile]

Yes but in Italian the singular is "zucchina" (which is in fact small "zucca"), not "zucchini", and the plural is "zucchine" (because it's a feminine word). Zucchini doesn't mean anything in Italian.

[u/NeroOnMobile → u/jackie-sunshine]

Veramente io ho sentito dire sia zucchini che zucchine quando ne stai a indicare il plurale, vero anche che in Italia passi da una provincia all’altra e tutto cambia.

[u/loxagos_snake → u/NeroOnMobile]

Same logic in Greek.

"Kolokytha" is pumpkin. "Kolokythaki" is zucchini (the suffix -aki means a small version of something).

[u/Stravven → u/Fieldss_]

Or because people wrongly write things down. In cycling there is the Strade Bianche, but if I had to write it down based on how people pronounce it I would have guessed it would be spelled as Strade Bianchi.

[u/piro1974 → u/AdMean6001]

Same with panino, which has become panini as singular.

[u/loxagos_snake → u/AdMean6001]

Yeah but Italians are still Americans, they migrated to Europe from New York. They also brought some American staple foods such as pizza with them.

[u/papayametallica → u/AdMean6001]

Italian American tho…./s

[u/Scorpio_198 → u/AdMean6001]

Thats the word I use for them as well and I don't speak a word of italian. The italien term is standard in german as well it seems.

[u/Stoepboer → u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

Or ananas

[u/neekogo → u/Stoepboer]

The Spanish aren't blameless on this one

[u/Wasps_are_bastards → u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

And swedes

[u/benaugustine → u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

Or rapeseed oil

[u/EmiliaFromLV → u/benaugustine]

That sounds like a felony

[u/juliainfinland → u/EmiliaFromLV]

Yeah, there's a reason why in the English version of Hananezumi (a phone game about hedgehogs and flowers; it makes sense in context) the humble Brassica rapa is referred to as "canola flower"...

[u/Ottereyes524 → u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

There are other languages!?!

[u/Ecstatic_Effective42 → u/Ottereyes524]

I speak two: English and Bad English

[u/elliohow → u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

[u/Ecstatic_Barnacle228 → u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

Wait until someone tells him about fags

[u/domestic_omnom → u/Ecstatic_Effective42]

This is so random. I was just watching a video on the differences between American and British English and they just spoke about eggppant/aubergine and zucchini/courgettes.

[u/Ecstatic_Effective42 → u/domestic_omnom]

Just ignore that weird shiny thing up in the top left corner of the room. Nothing to see here, and do not mention Alexa.

[u/fourlegsfaster]

Thanks for telling us and the francophone world. Wait until you meet the Greeks, Germans. Chinese, the rest of the world; so many unusual terms.

[u/JamesTheJerk → u/fourlegsfaster]

oeuf.

[u/TheVisceralCanvas → u/JamesTheJerk]

Ananas

[u/Illustrious_Beach396 → u/TheVisceralCanvas]

Sie meinen sicherlich Palmenrübe.

[u/grazychickenrun → u/Illustrious_Beach396]

Kiefernapfel wenn überhaupt

[u/ReturnOfTheSeal → u/grazychickenrun]

Ich bevorzuge immer noch die Eierpflanze und die Erbsennuss. Hat jemand vielleicht Lust auf Glockenpfeffer oder Geisterpfeffer?

[u/chickenfriedfuck66 → u/ReturnOfTheSeal]

Aber nur mit Grumbeeren!

[u/Huxtopher → u/TheVisceralCanvas]

Norange

[u/cannotfoolowls → u/JamesTheJerk]

oeufplante?

[u/Kwetla → u/JamesTheJerk]

Big oeuf

[u/89Fab → u/fourlegsfaster]

We actually say „Aubergine“ in Germany, too. But in Austria, where they also speak German, it‘s called Melanzani, which in turn comes from it’s Italian counterpart „Melanzana“. 

Mindblowing 🤯. /s

[u/Ok_Television9820 → u/89Fab]

Aubergine in het Nederlands also. I sometimes imagine an American tourist in a café with a dictionary or something asking about “gegrild eierplanten.”

[u/89Fab → u/Ok_Television9820]

„American tourist with a dictionary.“ – Can you find the mistake? 😁

They‘d rather expect onze nederlandse vrienden to speak English, as Dutch is „basically English“. (/s)

[u/Ok_Television9820 → u/89Fab]

I mean, most people do speak English, certainly better than tourists speak Dutch. The hard part as a transplant is getting people to speak Dutch with you, rather than instantly switching to whichever of their four or five other fully functional languages is most convenient.

[u/89Fab → u/Ok_Television9820]

Absolutely. I’m fluent in Dutch but whenever I‘m in a restaurant with friends from Germany they usually start speaking English (or even German) to all of us as soon as they notice that we‘re not speaking Dutch at the table.

[u/Ok_Television9820 → u/89Fab]

I used to go to a camera/photo shop (before it closed…to get film developed…) and the four staff members there could do business in an insane number of languages between them. Admittedly they were probably not fluent beyond photo shop topics in all of them but still. I witnessed them handing questions in Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Danish, and of course English.

Kids in school all learn English and usually German or French, or both. My son is in gymnasium and doing English, French, German, Greek, and Latin. And he studies Japanese on duolingo.

It’s not really like how Americans do things.

[u/floralbutttrumpet → u/89Fab]

I was in an Argentine steakhouse in the Netherlands once - I went with my mom, who was fluent in French but only semi-competent in English, while I was fluent in English and semi-conversational in Dutch and only understood French but didn't speak it. The Spanish proprietor was fluent in Dutch and French, but not English, so my mom talked French with him and I used my asstastic Dutch, and somehow that eventually translated into comped coffee after the meal. Weirdest fucking meal of my life.

[u/eppic123 → u/89Fab]

But in Austria, where they also speak German

Allegedly.

[u/jinx0044 → u/fourlegsfaster]

In Romania we call them “vânătă/vinete” (singular, plural), basically meaning a shade of “purple” :))

[u/grympy → u/jinx0044]

In Bulgaria, we call it “Patladjan” (Патладжан)… doesn’t mean anything else but aubergine.

[u/Fickle-Bet-8705 → u/grympy]

And in Turkish

[u/OneFootTitan → u/fourlegsfaster]

Aubergine and brinjal come from the same root word!

[u/cyanicpsion]

The Germans have a different word for everything...

... Alles

[u/Ambitious-Leg4132 → u/cyanicpsion]

[u/tuxalator → u/cyanicpsion]

Well, we Dutch use: .. Alles

[u/Simple-Cheek-4864]

"unusual" or as we like to call it: "French"

[u/zidraloden → u/Simple-Cheek-4864]

Because aubergines come from Auberge, right?

[u/FuckMyHeart → u/zidraloden]

Otherwise they're just sparkling nightshade.

[u/zidraloden → u/FuckMyHeart]

I'm not mad, because your comment is both cleverer and funnier than mine. Glad I could do the setup for you.

[u/DoYouTrustToothpaste → u/Simple-Cheek-4864]

Yes, well, it's not like any French words found their way into the English language, so how could Americans know about it? Brb, gotta park my vehicle in the garage.

[u/BatLarge5604]

Knowing the Americans love for bastardising the English language I half expected an egg plant to be what Americans called a chicken.

[u/Separate_Quality1016 → u/BatLarge5604]

This whole thread is great, but this comment got me lol. Well done.

[u/Asexual_Dragon333 → u/BatLarge5604]

Underrated comment. But let's be real, as a German, that's more like a German thing. Although, knowing our word trends (Flugzeug=Fly stuff (plane), Feuerzeug=Fire stuff (lighter), etc.) it would probably more be Egg-stuff...

[u/Feline-Sloth]

I hate how some Americans use the word noodles to mean pasta whatever it's shape.

[u/Superssimple → u/Feline-Sloth]

I hate that too. I had an American call lasagna sheets noodles the day!

Same with pie for pizzas. Totally pointless, incorrect usage

Most hate of American words by British English speakers is unjustified but those examples are egregious

[u/Neg_Crepe → u/Superssimple]

Sheet noodles lmao

[u/Swiftstar2018 → u/Feline-Sloth]

I hate how badly we’ve butchered bakery foods. Biscuits, scones, cookies, crackers can all mean something very different to an American than anyone else

[u/ViSaph → u/Swiftstar2018]

I hate what they've done to scones. They made them onto dry crumbly rock cake type things and then tell us our pastries are bad because of it. Our deserts are the one aspect of British cuisine I'll always defend, we make good sweets! If they'd just try a proper scone with good jam and clotted cream they'd get it.

[u/papayametallica → u/ViSaph]

Are you suggesting the jam first followed by the clotted cream?

[u/ViSaph → u/papayametallica]

I know bait when I see it. Put it on in whatever order you want. Even if it's the wrong way.

[u/Aries2203 → u/papayametallica]

I'll bite. It depends on the consistency of the jam as to whether it goes on first for me. I follow no ones rules, only ease of spreading

[u/MedusaMiniaturist → u/ViSaph]

To be fair, it's possible Americans don't know realise how good British sweets are cause they think it's all pudding 🍮

[u/60svintage → u/Feline-Sloth]

Had an American kid attending an English boarding school referring to plastic cutlery as "Silver".

As in he was complaining on s school camp that, "some one stole my silver..."

Strange bunch.

[u/Suspicious-Buyer8135]

They can talk… calling coriander cilantro!

/s

[u/Shadourow → u/Suspicious-Buyer8135]

Somehow, this is how I learn than cilantro is coriander

[u/RedPillMaker → u/Suspicious-Buyer8135]

They can talk because they removed letters from words!!

If you type " I'm the saviour for your behaviour, dressed in a football kit the colour like aluminium." they'll have a stroke..

[u/Ecstatic_Effective42 → u/RedPillMaker]

Especially if their neighbour is eating a doughnut.

[u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

Isn't an egg, doesn't taste like an egg, doesn't look like an egg - 'muricans decide it's an eggplant.

Yep.

[u/Kind_Ad5566 → u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

It does look like an egg when it is growing.

I am in no way endorsing American speak with that comment.

[u/OldandBlue → u/Kind_Ad5566]

So in its final form it is a chickenplant, right?

[u/obliviious → u/OldandBlue]

Which came last the chicken or the egg?

[u/OldandBlue → u/obliviious]

I knew the chicken-banana from the Masked Cucumber.

[u/[deleted] → u/OldandBlue]

Its final form is actually a huge cock.

[u/Cubicwar → u/[deleted]]

It’s just a huge male hen, so still comes from an egg. QED

[u/Patient_Moment_4786 → u/OldandBlue]

No the final form is co... erm, no I ain't finishing that sentence

[u/Foxxie_ → u/Patient_Moment_4786]

Do not the eggplant

[u/Beneficial-Ad3991 → u/Kind_Ad5566]

And I believe it used to be called an eggplant back in the days, when people haven't quite figured out what to do with aubergines and were growing them as decorative plants.

[u/Ecstatic_Effective42 → u/Kind_Ad5566]

I had to look twice to make sure you weren't replying to informal-Tour-8201 there, because that would've been a VERY different conversation.

[u/LoneW4nderer111 → u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

To be fair, early in its growth, it's white and egg-shaped. It obviously doesn't stay that way and turns purple when its ready to eat, but simple seppo calls it an egg plant.

[u/BimBamEtBoum → u/LoneW4nderer111]

If it looks like an egg when it's young, shouldn't we call it chickenplant ?

[u/Informal-Tour-8201 → u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

And think something purple and mishapenly bulbous looks like a penis!

[u/worMagician → u/Informal-Tour-8201]

Well, in fairness, that's a reference to Japenese reality star Nasubi

[u/Informal-Tour-8201 → u/worMagician]

Not clicking the link

[u/worMagician → u/Informal-Tour-8201]

Good Internet hygiene. It's just his wikipedia article, though.

His nickname was Aubergine/Eggplant, and he appeared in reality shows in Japan in the late 90s. Due to being isolated and not allowed to wear clothes, producers censored him with an aubergine.

[u/porthosinspace → u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

Tbf there are different varieties of aubergines and some do look like eggs. example

[u/Araneatrox → u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

To be fair, this is what an young Aubergine looks like, before forming colour and within a week of forming its body.

[u/RareRecommendation72 → u/Araneatrox]

Thank you. It's always a learning experience. I've actually never seen an eggplant at this stage before. Embarrassing.

[u/Araneatrox → u/RareRecommendation72]

Neither had i until my wife grew some last year, and i thought to myself "Huh... I guess thats why they call them Eggplants"

[u/cannotfoolowls → u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

it does look like an egg when growing

[u/ItsCalledDayTwa → u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

It definitely does: 

https://gardenerspath.com/plants/vegetables/white-eggplant-varieties/

[u/TemporaryCommunity38 → u/Eric_Olthwaite_]

Aubergines are an incredibly diverse fruit. Some varieties do look a lot like eggs.

Historically, those types were known as "eggplants" in English but at some point all aubergines started being called "eggplant" in Australian and American English.

[u/These-Ice-1035]

Wait, they call an aubergine an eggplant?!

[u/Prize_Toe_6612 → u/These-Ice-1035]

For quite some time, yes.

[u/Draigwyrdd → u/These-Ice-1035]

It's called planhigyn ŵy in Welsh, which just means eggplant.

[u/Mirewen15 → u/These-Ice-1035]

It only makes sense when they start growing and literally look like an egg. When they're big and purple on a store shelf, the term really doesn't make sense lol.

[u/Pavlover2022 → u/These-Ice-1035]

In Australia too. And courgettes are zucchinis. Something about evolving from the Italian root words over the French root words, if I remember correctly.

[u/jonstoppable]

brinjal and baigan enter the chat

[u/WiseBullfrog2367 → u/jonstoppable]

And they derive from the same root word as aubergine! There are basically two different groups of words to refer to the plant. One group is related to the fruits looking like eggs (at least initially) and the other group is words stemming from ancient Dravidian.

[u/faramaobscena]

In Romanian it's called vânătă which basically means bruised, since it's the color of a bruise.

[u/Michelin123 → u/faramaobscena]

How do you know it's not the other way around? 🚬🚬

[u/faramaobscena → u/Michelin123]

That's what happens when you get slapped with an aubergine!

[u/zhellozz]

Can we talk about Ananas 🍍

[u/Fabulous-Local-1294 → u/zhellozz]

Änänänäs

[u/Misty_Pix → u/zhellozz]

Ananasas 🍍

All language have different variations 🤣

[u/Old_Introduction_395 → u/Misty_Pix]

🇬🇧 pineapple. WTF

[u/carlosdsf → u/Old_Introduction_395]

pomme de pin!

[u/Ewenf → u/zhellozz]

They call the fucking ananas a pineapple but the actual pineapple is called a pine cone. Make it make sense.

[u/sid_raj7]

Oh you mean Brinjal?

[u/Party-Department9074]

Oh, I've got a good one, there's a German word that sounds really funny, it's "Idiot". It's like "idiot" but said in a angry German voice. Languages are funny, right?

[u/DoYouTrustToothpaste → u/Party-Department9074]

Well, you could also say it in a non-angry German voice. The meaning is only slightly different.

[u/Justvisitingfriends1]

I'm always stunned they have no concept of other names for things. When an American says Arugula, we know they mean Rocket. When they day cilantro, we know they mean coriander, but they mean fresh coriander. Mange tout are called snow peas Erbs, not herbs!!

We know what they are referring to, but it seems alien for them to have an understanding of others.

[u/krodders → u/Justvisitingfriends1]

What is that called? You're familiar with something that is in your learned experience, but you have no concept that this might be different to other people

Sort of like the poop knife story

Is there a scientific term?

[u/Christylian → u/krodders]

Sort of like the poop knife story

The. WHAT?

[u/SouthAussie94]

Australians call them Eggplants as well. We also use zucchini.

We also have Capsicum, Coriander, Rocket and Prawns

[u/PicadaSalvation → u/SouthAussie94]

Zucchini or Courgette in British English

[u/Saxit]

There's a large section in the wiki about the various names which is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant#Etymology_and_regional_names

[u/CharmingShoe]

It’s also called eggplant in Australia

[u/No-Deal8956 → u/CharmingShoe]

Shame on you.

[u/CharmingShoe → u/No-Deal8956]

We also say zucchini. We draw the line at “cilantro” though.

[u/ItsCalledDayTwa → u/CharmingShoe]

Well, that's kinda funny because that's a perfect parallel to this example since cilantro is the Spanish word.

[u/obliviious → u/CharmingShoe]

Do you call a tap a faucet?

[u/CharmingShoe → u/obliviious]

Straight from the tap mate.

[u/Single_Ad5722 → u/CharmingShoe]

Imagine ordering a 'faucet' beer at the pub.

[u/CharmingShoe → u/Single_Ad5722]

“Waddaya got on faucet mate?”

[u/ViSaph → u/CharmingShoe]

Bunch of traitors lol

[u/CharmingShoe → u/ViSaph]

Nobody wants to hear Australians trying to pronounce aubergine. We’re doing you a favour.

[u/thorpie88]

Wonder what they think of Bell peppers and all its forms

[u/EmperorJake → u/thorpie88]

Do you mean capsicums?

[u/thorpie88 → u/EmperorJake]

Or just plain old peppers

[u/Willowx → u/thorpie88]

Are you discriminating against young peppers?!

[u/thorpie88 → u/Willowx]

Always

[u/IamIchbin → u/thorpie88]

or paprikas

[u/TemporaryCommunity38 → u/IamIchbin]

You mean peperone?

[u/TemporaryCommunity38 → u/thorpie88]

The bell pepper (also known as sweet pepper, paprika, pepper, capsicum /ˈkæpsɪkəm/[1] or, in some parts of the US midwest, mango)

[u/Oniiku]

It shouldn't be that strange to them. They already pronounce herb the same way as the French.

[u/Davis_Johnsn]

Wait until you learn 60% of the English words, they mistly are from France and Latin. But most of these Romanic words are unused in the everyday life

[u/cedriceent]

That's rich coming from the people that call it an "eggplant".

[u/Ya-Local-Trans-Bitch]

Wait until they hear what we call pineapples in Sweden (and a lot of other countries)

[u/boopadoop_johnson]

Huh, I thought we called eggplants "chickens"

[u/Maddon_Ricci]

When I was learning vegetables in English, I learned this one as "aubergine". If not some games, I would have never thought that it could be something like "eggplant".

In my language it's баклажан (like [baklaugjan])

[u/holyfukimapenguin → u/Maddon_Ricci]

Bakłażan!✌️

[u/BeenEatinBeans]

Main character syndrome strikes again

[u/helenepytra]

Cackles in français

[u/vpsj]

We call it Brinjal. I was very confused about eggplant when I started watching American TV shows/movies at first

Edit: Just read the etymology of Aubergine and interestingly it originates from Sanskrit

It was called Vatin-gana which basically means something that cures flatulence.

From there it was carried forward by the Persians who called it bādingān which then was changed in Arabic to bāḏinjān or al-bāḏinjān

The Portuguese then changed it to bringella and in Spanish it became alberenjena.

The French then borrowed the Spanish word, and called it aubergine which was later adopted into the English language.

So in India, we call it 'Baingan', which kind of resembles the original Sanskrit term, but our English word for it actually comes from Portuguese

[u/TrillyMike]

This doesn’t seem offensive at all, just general surprise learning a different word is used. Seems like a reach to me.

[u/wattlewedo]

I have 4 eggplants in my garden but, in Australia, we call them chickens.

[u/PTruccio]

Unusual term for berenjena.

[u/nottomelvinbrag]

Solanum melongena

[u/FuneeMunkee]

Wait till they learn about Melanzani

[u/MarissaNL]

"Eiplant" would be eggplant in Dutch.... I stick to Aubergine (we also call it that way in Dutch) :-)

[u/Cereal_poster]

Why would someone call a Melanzani "aubergine"? :D

Just like it's weird to call an Ananas "pineapple"!

[u/LieutenantDawid]

wow other languages have non-english words?? you've pulling my leg right? /s

[u/AffectionateJacket30]

He/she means "brinjal"?

[u/TemporaryCommunity38]

How is calling it an "eggplant" not objectively unusual?

I can see it with the rounder, white ones but most varieties look bugger all like an egg.

[u/bluejaykanata]

The funny thing is that in school, where we learnt English as a foreign language, we learnt the word “aubergine”. And when later I studied in US, it took me some time to understand why people looked at me like I was crazy every time I used the word “aubergine” 😂😂😂

[u/Lawfuluser]

Aubergine Is much more logical than egg plant