3. A squash by any other name – might be a zucchini.
In actual fact, a zucchini is just a squash gone skinny. It doesn’t even come from the homeland of all other squashes, that homeland being the Americas. Instead, it is a hybrid, created by Italians near Milan in the late 19th century. They named their new squash ‘little squash’ (zucca squash, ino little) and its syntax has been bastardized by Americans so that the plural form, zucchini, is now singular in our ignorant countries.