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The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word for "large melon" What was the the greek word? (and no it is not Dolly P!!)

4/13/2009 3:12:24 AM

Webster, NY

The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word for "large melon" which is "pepon." "Pepon" was nasalized by the French into "pompon." The English changed "pompon" to "Pumpion." Shakespeare referred to the "pumpion" in his Merry Wives of Windsor. American colonists changed "pumpion" into "pumpkin." The "pumpkin" is referred to in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater and Cinderella.

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/pumpkins/history.html

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4/13/2009 4:15:44 AM

Ohio

I dont think that answer is right, I think the word pumpkin originated from 'Ice cube' It all started a long time ago with two people on who could grow the largest fruit which they called it a slang word, pumpkin, and somehow Ice was thrown in. The word pumpkin originated from Eddy Z out of Canada,,,, everyone knows that.

4/13/2009 4:28:58 AM

Where am I? Idono

Dang that was apparently too easy

4/13/2009 5:29:58 AM

Long Island,New York

Then Jim Kuhn changed it to pungkin.

4/13/2009 5:59:17 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

pungkin is when it sat too long on display in the afternoon sun and you cut it open to see if there's any seeds left in that ... soup ... :)

4/13/2009 12:10:36 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

I think BillF. from MN pronounces it "pungkin" as well. If it will help me get the results they do, I may start calling them that LOL.>

4/13/2009 1:17:54 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

BrookZ...You are getting that mixed up with ToematerZ...Later on changed to justZ maters.....no toeZ involved to step on....BiZ knowZ Ice....after all once Ice Melts...it turnZ to water....and then one needZ a "Water Boy"........

QuiZ,...... good work!.....

4/13/2009 1:37:58 PM