I can not, for the life of me, type "pumpkin" without typing "pumpking". Can not. If I am typing along at anything that resembles a normal speed- even if I know full-well that the word is coming up- my darn left index finger slips over and pops in a final "g". Wha? I'm then forced to go grudgingly back and delete it. This gets particularly annoying at a time when one is repeatedly forced to acknowledge the name of a gourd that's ignored for eleven months out of the year. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin party, pumpkin fest... bah. I therefore suggest that "pumpking" be adopted into standard English. Yeah? Yeah? Surely I'm not the only one with this problem. There will be no need to pronounce it differently- a "silent g" will suffice- and I really think this will lead to a greater appreciation for some other words with multiple spellings. Call it stubbornness, call it laziness, call it ridiculous... I won't fight it anymore.
mmm... pumpking pie
Friday, October 27, 2006
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