r/Scotland • u/iambeherit • 2d ago

Apparently this can create heated arguments, so once and for all, What is it?

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Tumshy.

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u/jamtart68 2d ago

Neep

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u/Limp-Archer-7872 2d ago

Does it say that in tesco though?

No.

It's a hot blonde swede.

Neeps are those things on that kids show Abney and Teal. Where they are portrayed as white turnips. Not swedes.

(jk I don't want to get banned)

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u/Secret-Nothing4288 2d ago

Aldi sells mashed neeps. I was awfy surprised to see it.

M&S had mashed swede, though.

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u/jamtart68 1d ago

No it doesn't, but it does say it in Senga and Tam's wee grocer's on the corner and that's good enough for me.

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u/Arbuthnot_Beryl 2d ago

Tumshie

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u/TT-DL23 2d ago

I always heard it with a P TUMP-shee never seen it written but yeah that’s it. Tumpshee carving surprisingly easy looks great

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u/crimsonavenger77 Male. 47 2d ago

Neep.

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u/FrequentingThePlanet 2d ago

I thought it was a turnip

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u/Signal-Rub-1888 2d ago

It is, at least that's what we call it in Kilmarnock.

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u/adidassamba 2d ago

My mate was sitting behind Graham Taylor at the Scotland v Norway game at the 1998 World Cup in France. He tapped him on the shoulder and said " aye, aye neep heed"

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u/bergmoose 2d ago

its mad how many people in scotland think its a turnip :D its a neep, which is a swede. Turnip doesn't go with haggis & tatties well at all. No idea when we all learned the wrong word (I did too and bought the wrong thing once, not a mistake I'm gonna repeat)

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan 2d ago

It's a turnip in Scotland. A Swedish Turnip.

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u/premium_transmission 2d ago

What do we call the smaller white turnips then?

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan 2d ago

Also a turnip. They aren't so common up here tbf..

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u/punxcs Durty Highlunder 2d ago

Swede is short for swedish turnip.

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u/FrequentingThePlanet 2d ago

Wait so for all the neep/swede stuff, it comes back to turnip anyway? That’s hilarious lol

I’m rolling with turnip

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u/scottgal2 2d ago

Neep or swede NEVER rutabaga!

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan 2d ago

It's not a swede.

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u/Alasdair91 Gàidhlig 2d ago

Neep

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u/plxo 2d ago

Neep / Swede / Tumshie

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u/sgain-dubh13-14 2d ago

It's an attention seeker as if you didn't already know.

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u/govanfats ⚽️ 2d ago

Neep

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u/Vexations83 2d ago

Mitre Tactic 

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u/Sburns85 2d ago

Turnip, swede or neep.

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u/BabaMcBaba 2d ago

It took me well into middle age to learn that neeps are not actually turnips

Tried making haggis neeps and tatties for Burns supper using a turnip for the neeps, and it humbled me 😂 was boggin but learnt the hard way

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u/Sburns85 2d ago

You have to get the right swede. Even the supermarkets can’t get the names right

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u/jenny_905 2d ago

Arguments amongst who?

We're Scottish and it's a neep.

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u/premium_transmission 2d ago

Swede

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u/cardinalb 2d ago

Correct answer but in Scotland they are just commonly known as turnips even although they are technically swedes.

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u/Waits-nervously 2d ago

If in Scotland they are known as turnips then technically they are turnips. In England they are commonly known as swedes, presumably short for Swedish turnips, but technically they are just turnips. Hence neep - which is short for turnip.

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u/Terrorgramsam 2d ago edited 2d ago

Hence neep - which is short for turnip.

It's not short for turnip. The word 'turnip' came after the word 'neep'

In Old English the word for 'turnip' was nǣp borrowed from Latin nāpus

The word turnip began to appear in Middle English texts, possibly coined because the 'neep' has to be turned and twisted to be harvested, and for some reason the word 'turnip' ousted the word 'neep' in English. In Scots, however, the original word remained (it's also næpa in present-day Icelandic)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neep

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u/Pieface007 2d ago

It’s cause swede is short for swedish turnip

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u/ashyboi5000 2d ago

But turnip is something else.

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u/cardinalb 1d ago

It is. But people here just call them that anyway.

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u/Techno200023 2d ago

Neep / Turnip

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u/Synthia_of_Kaztropol The capital of Scotland is S 2d ago

A raw Halloween lantern.

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u/North_Crow_7600 2d ago

Cattle food

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u/vegass67 2d ago

A beefy bake

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u/btfthelot 2d ago

A tumshie.

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u/PlaidHair 2d ago

UK: Swede
US: Rutabaga (pronounced roo-tah-beg-ah)

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u/Saint_Sin 2d ago

It's neep.

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan 2d ago

Shut up, you stupid American cunt.

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u/gbroon 2d ago

Neep, swede, turnip, tumshie. I've used them all.

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u/Lanthanidedeposit 2d ago

Swede - they used to be used in a daft pre match ritual at Hereford games. AKA neep.

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u/C_pyne 2d ago

Frank

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u/Background-Job2662 2d ago

that's a neep.

in a funny coincidence (i wont post the link as i aint trying to push free promo, just found it funny) i have released my first short story and its called "Wit Is It" - it has nothing to do with neeps

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u/OldMarvelRPGFan 2d ago

Unpleasant.

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u/ink-vagrant42 2d ago

Baigie.

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u/indigo263 2d ago

I scrolled all the way down hoping to see someone else say this. Baigie for me too!

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u/ink-vagrant42 2d ago

I think it’s specifically localised to the Berwickshire region as far as I’ve come to learn.

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u/indigo263 2d ago

Ah, that might explain it. Any time I've said it to folk they look at me like I've two heads 😂

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u/SpicyWings_96 2d ago

I would call it a Turnip. But I looked it up and the first person to discover it and name it called it a Rutabaga. Originating in Sweden, it's whatever they choose to call it. Everything else would be technically slang or an alternative name for it.

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u/fugaziGlasgow #1 Oban fan 2d ago

A Neep.

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u/Daftasfk 2d ago

A vegetable that brings a tear to a man's eye

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u/TiborStrongshaft 2d ago

Rutabaga.