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

My Geordie mother calls them Scallions.

I call them spring onions. My father calls them shibboons which is his word for them being called sibwn/gibbons in Wales.

Another County Durham original here - and scallions every time. You've brought me happy memories of my grandparents tonight! Everyone seems to say spring onions now (on the many occasions I have.conversations about them).

Friend from Aberystwyth says 'jibbons', spelled 'gibbons'. I thought it was just him!

Scallions in mash with a little bit of milk and butter is called 'champ'. Americanism my arse :)

Americanism my arse smile

Let's try to be nice to the cousins across the pond please.

Always called the Spring Onions where I am in England

My Canadian family call them scallions

@ThumbWitchesAbroad that's fucking madness right there

And I'm from the NE and it is spring onions to everyone I know

@TheSpottedZebra, N Scotland here too. I don’t think I saw a spring onion til I was quite ‘old’, we just made do with chives which grew at the washing line (I thought chives were quite posh 😂)

Natives of Co Carlow in the SE of Ireland are called "Scallion Aters" because they used to be grown in the area for the market gardens in Dublin.

Fount of useless knowledge, me.

I grew up in the southern US. We called them spring onions, but now most people I know in the US call them green onions. The only time I hear scallions is on Food Network.

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"A Welsh-speaking person on the Monmouthshire message board has written to say that it comes from a WElsh word"sibwm" and that jibbons is a "Wenglish" word, Wenglish being the language spoken in parts of Monmouthshire. This was mostly the Western coal-mining valleys(including Newbridge, Mon where I was born)
Sylvia"

This debate has been going on for a long time, I am sure.
I have decided to use jibbons from now on, we are losing so many of our Talk Tidy, Wenglish words.

spring onions in UK

Nope - syboes in Scotland, Spring Onions in England - no idea about Wales.

Sybees was a word I first heard from a Glaswegian. I am from Ayrshire andcalled them spring onions. Salad onions annoys me! The only way to eat them is softened in butter and poured over boiled Ayrshire tatties!

Jamaicans call them scallions too. Which probably came from Irish people who came to the island

I’ve never heard of syboes until today and I’m Scottish. We called them spring onions.

@SenecaFalls good old Martha Stewart calls them scallions. Guessing that ties in with the Food Network theme :)

a always thought it was scallions in ireland ans spring onions in england

I'm another one with Durham/Tyneside family (and Scottish grandparents) who grew up knowing them as scallions. No Irish folk in the family as far as I know. When I moved south nobody had heard of them.

Do love hearing about the vocab used in different dialects. Lots of crossover between North East England and parts of Scotland (as you'd expect).

I'm Irish so say scallions and I remember Ainsley Harriot on Ready Steady Cook saying that people in Jamaica call them scallions too. Lived in Glasgow for five years and can't recall ever hearing them called syboes!

My Dad, from Yorkshire, called them violets.

He maintained that was regional. Born near Wakefield to parents from that area. Born in 1935.

I have always wondered if it was a family rather than regional thing but it is too late to ask him. Anyone heard of this one?

I'm from NE England. We call them either spring onions and scallions. I thought spring onions tend to be the younger ones with lots of green whereas scallions tend to be older, wider ones. I think the distinctions been lost now things are available out of season.

I don't think southerners are that familiar with calling them scallions.

Jibbons when I was growing up in South East Wales.

Sibwns here too (pronounced shibbons or jibbons.

I think the actual Welsh word is sibols which is not a million miles away from syboes/sybees and also not far from the Portuguese cebola, the Spanish cebolla and the Italian cipolla.