Zucchini in Australia and courgette in New Zealand! Why?

etymology terminology antipodean-english

I can probably understand why the plant is called zucchini in the US and courgette in the UK- could be traced to the proximity of the UK to France but how come it's got two different names in Australasia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini


Solution 1:

Depends whether you have more Italian (zucchini) or French/English (courgette) immigrants. I suspect that New Zealand only had English immigrants who used the English term - which was originally from French.

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