Wikijunior talk:Food Alphabet/E

Eggplant is american english


"Eggplant" is american english. English english people call this vegetable an Aubergine. It could easily be swapped out for an alternative to avoid any confusion --- Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 12:12, 10 November 2015 (UTC)


 * OK I've just swapped our Eggplant, replacing with Egg -- Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 22:50, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Egg
The obvious suggested alternative: E is for Egg or Eggs



-- Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 12:12, 10 November 2015 (UTC)


 * When I think of "egg", the first image that comes to my mind is ovoid and has a shell. Looking at the above I had to consider a moment before deciding yes, it's an egg.  That does raise the interesting question of what the pre-reader's experience of "egg" is likely to be and what we'd like to teach about the word.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:09, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

and all others who this concerns, what about using elderberry or edam? I know they may be more obscure, but really, eggplant is only used in America. Qwerty number1 (discuss • contribs) 20:27, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Yeah Elderberry or Edam would be better than eggplant, but I still prefer Egg.
 * Just a matter of finding a good egg picture. Here's a selection I just dug out. May favourite is the first, for the reasons given.

In fact I'll go ahead and swap in the first one, since this seems clearly better than eggplant, but a more perfect egg picture, or a different E word, is still a possibility for sure.

-- Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 22:45, 27 January 2019 (UTC)