> > So you and Ellmyruh near the West Coast call them "Green Onions"... Kiki in D.C. and my Mother call them "Spring Onions"... and Grishny in Ohio and Brunnen-G in NZ say they're "Scallions." Maybe there's the beginnings of a distinct linguistic distribution here. Who else wants to contribute to the mapping?
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> > Wolf "Have yet to figure out which part of the world calls them 'Shallots'" spirit

> Gri"'Shallots' sounds French to me"shny

They're called "eschalotte" in French French (and in presumably in the more hoity-toity English European restos). In Quebec French, they're simply called "oignons verts" (green onions). A French-Canadian slang phrase to describe bundling up your children in so many layers of winter clothing that their arms stick right out is to say "comme un oignon" (meaning bundled and tied up tight like onion layers).

Wolfspirit