"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:42:48 -0800, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 17:54:57 -0800, "Cheri" >
>> > wrote:
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>> >> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> >> > Since almost all Americans have come from somewhere else, we tend to
>> >> > use a foreign word along with the English word for something when
>> >> > trying to transform the ordinary into something special. A famous
>> >> > one
>> >> > is a recipe we call Shrimp scampi and I just read a blogger call
>> >> > plain
>> >> > white/button mushrooms from the grocery store Champignon Mushrooms.
>> >> > Can you think of any other examples? I'm blanking, but I know there
>> >> > are more.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Sweet and sour aubergine, for eggplant.
>> >>
>> > They never say Eggplant Augergine or maybe Zucchini Courgettes?
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>> Yes, they do.
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> Ouch!

People will use whatever they have grown up with or is used around them.
Don't mean they are stupid, they just say what is easily understood.

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