Scallions is not an Americanism

[Monty27]

I got accused today of using an Americanism. I said it's Irish, it became transaltantic after the famine.
Scallions in mash on st Patrick's Day is Irish. With cabbage and bacon of course. No Guinness but Irish coffees and beers and cava I was hosting

Came in to mention gibbons, but someone else got there first. Didn't realise it was Welsh.

Scallions in Ireland. Always confuses English DH.

Scallions definitely is Irish. Tesco annoys me as they package them as spring onions, despite being in Ireland.

Yep definitely jibbons in South Wales. Me calling them spring onions is apparently a sign I’ve got above myself, “Ooooh spring onions la di da”.

Scallions and champ in Northern Iteland.

Though my mother used to refer to teenage lads as young scallions if they were a bit of a tear away!

The problem here is not whether it's American or not (I use it and am American), the problem is really that a lot of people look down on using vocabulary they perceive to be American. Most of which is used in various parts of the UK, but all of which is harmless. It's just a slightly different vocabulary--not worth people getting worked up over.

I've lived in South Wales 48 years and never heard the word jibbons or similar used. They're spring onions!

In Edinburgh they're cybees

I thought Americans call them green onions. Never heard the word scallions before

Both terms are used here, but scallions is more common.

I guess the Americans must have imported it from Ireland? Sounds delicious in any case.

It probably came over with the millions of Irish migrants who came here. I'm Irish on my dad's side. There are lots of us here, particularly in the northeast.

Syboes is Scottish. I don't think I (as spokesperson for All The Scots) have heard scallions used here. I'd presumed Irish too

Yes sybies is scottish scallions are Irish and they are just spring onions in England

Yep definitely jibbons in South Wales. Me calling them spring onions is apparently a sign I’ve got above myself, “Ooooh spring onions la di da”.

Yeah Sybies in Scotland

I've never heard of syboes/sybees and Im a born and bred Scot, tho currently in England.
Are you all central belt people with your posh veg?

I'm from Nr inverness, and tbh I doubt there were enough spring onions about to need a special word, bit I'd probably use spring onions and scallions interchangeably.

I'm from Scotland and have always called them scallions. Where I live in North East England they are scallions also.

But spring onions when I'm in the shops yes 😄

never heard jibbons, but scallions and sybies I did know.

and thanks to the pp who mentioned Champ...I was stuck on colcannon and couldn't remember!

How interesting about scalogno!

My south Yorkshire dad called them scallions but he did have a Geordie granny.

It is just what ive always known them as Thespottedzebra obviously if i ask for them in tesco they are spring onions

Here's what Sophie says...
www.sophieconran.com/blog/march-18-spring-onions/

Scallions in N. Ireland. And I'll be making champ to eat tonight thanks to this thread.

The irish make the best mash potato I was in Belfast recently and icould have just troughed on mash with various bits in the whole weekend
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And this

"A final thought....in Welsh,spring onions are sibwns, or gibbons in Welsh English ...who knows where THAT came from?!!"

I'm Scottish and my grandparents called them sybies.

I'm another from the NE who grew up with a mother that called them scallions.

Scallions are late Middle English from the Anglo-Norman French "scaloun" based on the Latin "ascalonia", and they taste good in mashed potato!

Spring onions is English.