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Originally Posted by kool maudit
some of them are ambitious. my boss is from london and at a staff dinner last week he was rather critical of the term "eggplant", strongly preferring "aubergine".
as we were at an italian restaurant, i suggested that perhaps we should both be referring to the melanzane.
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I find language differences of that sort to be interesting. I think sometimes it has to do with the fact that the term used in North America predates the word now used in the UK (aubergine might be an example of that, I don't know). I know that's the case for the way most North Americans handle a knife and fork, something that Brits also sometimes look down on, even though they used to use them the same way once upon a time.