My grandad in Wales called spring onions “gibbons” (g as in “gym”).
Shat himself, if you will.
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I know it’s bad form to quote yourself, but couldn’t resist.
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The soup of the many outweighs the soup of the one.
Syboes (cybees) in Scotland. Don’t hear it used often now but they were pretty much exclusively called that when I was a kid.
That’s an interesting one, sounds like it has a Latin (caepa) origin, same as the Spanish ‘cebolla’.
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Adherents of Antonin Scalia’s legal positions?
I’ve always thought the spelling was cibie but could be wrong there.
Anyway, had a childhood friend called Cibie as he had huge feet and was a drink of water up top.
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Wonder if it came in with Italian immigrants (“cipolla”)?
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I always thought it was cybee or cybie, only learned syboe this afternoon. Pronunciation is the same for all I think.
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That’s entirely possible, My memory only goes back to parents and grandparents using the word, the eldest of these being born that I met in 1896. Italian immigrants were here before then.
The glorious amalgam of language.
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Feck, just how old are you, then ?
Didn’t you know I invented the gramophone?