Talk:broccoli

"brocculo" in part of UK?

Moved here from WT:REE 2021:

• brocculo A possible Birmingham dialect form of broccoli. My Nan always says ‘brocculo’ instead of ‘broccoli’ and for a long time I thought it was just her getting it wrong but then I saw an episode of ‘Come Dine With Me’ where another old Brummie said it in exactly the same way! It clearly seems to be a very rare and old-fashioned dialect word that will soon die out (all I’ve found online are a handful of Italian language passages on Twitter, which may be misspellings, and a Venetian dialect dictionary written in Italian but then some of the spellings seem to have got corrupted when the book was digitised anyway, here it is:- https://archive.org/stream/dizionariodeldi00boergoog/dizionariodeldi00boergoog_djvu.txt Overlordnat1 (talk) 05:56, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Equinox ◑ 18:25, 13 November 2023 (UTC)