Green Onions -> Also known as spring onions, these are onions or shallots too immature to have bulbs or Welsh onions that never get bulbs. Scallions -> Immature onions without the bulb or Shallots used as green onions. Shallots -> A medium sized allium with a milder flavor than regular onions. Sometimes picked young to use as green onions.

I agree with you on those uses of the colon; they are just atrocious.

I'm surprised you're liking Truss's book. Language Hat's post on Louis Menand's review was enough to scare me away. She sounds like a prescriptivist nut who's not even very good at writing like a prescriptivist.

I'm still only a third or so of the way through, so we'll see. I think I know why I disagree with that assessment, but I'll post about it when I finish the book.

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