On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:14:01 +0100, NY wrote:

My wife asked me to peel and top/tail some carrots. Since they were very
small, she decided she only wanted me to chop off "the tails".

Which end does "the team" think is the head and which the tail?

I'd say the head was the wider end, at the top when the carrot is
growing the ground and which has the leaves sprouting from it; and the
tail is the pointed end at the bottom as it grows.

But after querying "do you *really* mean the tail", it turned out that
she thought of the blunt end as the tail. She knows how carrots grow and
has grown many, so it's weird that she uses "tail" to mean the blunt
end, uppermost in the ground with leaves on it.

Am I going mad?

If you wife is not close by the answer is that you are correct of
course. If your wife is reading this then she is correct.