Originally Posted by
Giggleswick
For the same reason that the Italians do?
(Though, actually, in Italian zucchini is plural, and zucchino is singular)
It's confusing.
After watching some American chef on the telly I once searched all the veg shops in Glasgow for zucchini without any success. None of them had even heard of it.......felt a right idiot when I found out what it was.