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Originally Posted by HarryT
Swedes and turnips aren't the same thing. Same family (brassica), but different members of it. A swede in Britain is a rutabaga in the US, but both countries use the same name for a turnip.
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Not quite that simple, apparently. Wikipedia:
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Rutabaga has many national and regional names. Rutabaga is the common North American term for the plant. This comes from the old Swedish dialectal word rotabagge, from rot (root) + bagge (short, stumpy object; probably related to bag).[2] In the U.S., the plant is also known as Swedish turnip or yellow turnip.[citation needed] The term swede is used instead of rutabaga in many Commonwealth Nations, including much of England, Wales, Australia, and New Zealand. The name turnip is also used in parts of Northern and Midland England, the Westcountry (particularly Cornwall), Ireland, Manitoba, Ontario and Atlantic Canada. In Scotland, it is known as turnip, and in Scots as tumshie or neep (from Old English næp, Latin napus).[3] Some areas of south east Scotland, such as Berwickshire and Roxburghshire, still use the term baigie, possibly a derivative of the original Swedish rutabaga.[4] The term turnip is also used for the white turnip (Brassica rapa ssp rapa).[3][5] Some[who?] will also refer to both swede and (white) turnip as just turnip (this word is also derived from næp).[5] In North-East England, turnips and swedes are colloquially called snadgers, snaggers (archaic) or narkies.[citation needed]
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