CHAT: Of onions (was: of snails and slugs)

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Yeah, shallots too, that's true. Never heard of using green onions, but again
> they are not that easy to find in France.
There appears to be irredeemable confusion in English terminology here.
M-w.com defines "shallot" as 1) Allium cepa aggregatum, 2) a green (non-bulbous)
onion, Allium cepa.

But then it defines "scallion" as 1) a shallot, 2) a leek (Allium ampeloprasum),
3) a green onion!

Personally, I treat "scallion" and "green onion" as interchangeable, and
shallots and leeks as something different.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter

Replies