A listener in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, was surprised to learn that in England the word marrow refers to zucchini. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Marrow Vegetable”
We heard from Lucy Zeldin-Rust, who listens to us in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and she was talking about the fact that words often have more than one meaning, like the term mango, which can mean either a bell pepper or a fruit.
She had the same experience with the word marrow.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah?
Right, so the marrow of a bone, but the vegetable marrow as well.
Exactly.
She said to us in the U.S., marrow is that center fatty goop in a bone, but to the British, it’s a zucchini.
And she said, visiting friends there, I was surprised to hear we would have marrow with a dip as an appetizer.
I’m a vegetarian.
I can’t have that.
The language is interesting and diverse.
