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Originally Posted by soulfuldog
Its a bit confusing as although technically swede and turnip are two different variations, at least where I'm from we don't use the term swede at all, they are all just turnips, the smaller white ones are early turnips, the bigger yellow ones are just turnips. I'd say its probably only in the past ten years that in supermarkets in Scotland we've started to see them labelled as swedes, previously it was just turnip.
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"Swede" is of course short for "Swedish turnip", which is another name for the white turnip.