Do i have the power to end a thread? ^^

To you and your compadres it appears that it is.

To me and mine it is a butternut pumpkin.

Nobody would know what you wanted if you asked for a butternut squash.

I thought squash was a racquet game played by Anglophiles (including the self-loving).

It's also a delicious delectable food, which for some reason seems unavailable to me this year. My cousin Irene used to work wonders with squash...butternut that is. Our neighbor Bill used to work wonders with a different squash, he grew spaghetti squash.

Sturgis, I just checked. Fresh Direct has butternut squash. I think it was $1.49 a pound.

Anglophiles?

It isn't equally a US thing?

And what's this racquetball thing Woody Allen plays?

Results of the US Open finals in October:



I've only ever met one American who I knew played squash, and she had attended both Columbia and Yale. Makes her an Anglophile in my book. Or at least impossibly WASPy.

Sorry about Ms Brown's defeat, by the way. That must have been difficult for you.

But you have a whole US open.

Again...what's with the racquetball? Is that just your name for squash?

I'd never heard of Ms Brown until now, so my pain has been extremely minor.

I useta play a lotta squash. I know people who play racquetball - they seem to have different courts. Dunno much more cuz I only cared about squash.

and ping pong

So, I don't mind, we have different names for things.

We could all look up the derivation of these words if that/those are available. I don't care, but to cover that, I'll just say nothing. I like the vegetable.

When did you all get to call all these things pumpkins, anyway?

People played squash at our YMCA. Very engaged they were. Reminded me of jai alai, which is tougher.

I used to play a lot of racquetball. I played squash once, on a court in England. Quite different sports. Don't care for squash, myself.

pumpkin /ˈpʌmpkɪn or, commonly, ˈpʌŋkɪn/ Show Spelled[puhmp-kin or, commonly, puhng-kin] Show IPA
noun
1. a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse, decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
2. the similar fruit of any of several related species, as C. maxima or C. moschata.
3. a plant bearing such fruit.

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Origin: 1640–50; alteration of pumpion ( see -kin), variant of pompon < Middle French, nasalized variant of popon melon, earlier pepon < Latin pepōn- (stem of pepō ) < Greek pépōn kind of melon

I can't find a dictionary definition for squash at all, except as a verb.

What about the Great Pumpkin?

and the Great Pumpkin Patch?

No one's going to wait all night for the Great Squash to appear!

squash 1 (skw sh, skwôsh)
n.
1. Any of various tendril-bearing plants of the genus Cucurbita, having fleshy edible fruit with a leathery rind and unisexual flowers.
2. The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.
[From alteration of Narragansett askútasquash.]

I'm gonna use Cucurbita in a sentence today. I'm going in for a checkup so perhaps I'll use it then.

"Doc, I think my Cucurbita is acting up again."

I believe racquetball has a much livelier and somewhat larger ball than squash, and a shorter racquet (to continue with the frankish spelling) with a larger face. Mebbe I'm wrong. Courts are different, too, I'm sure.

Find the human bean ...

When did you all get to call pumpkins squashes?