sound so mild and unassuming. No one seems to call them that here.
I loved Mark Hammil in "Courgette Summer"
I really, really detest using the word zucchini. It annoys me almost as much as "clue sheets." :)
You could always go the Norwegian route and refer to them simply as "squash". Note that this may cause confusion when you cook other types of squash, like "why is this squash soup orange?"