so what i'm getting from this is 'pumpkins are wildly hybridisable and form local subspecies very easily'.
Yes, probably this! I was just coming here to say that what I'm taking away from this is that people's words for different types of squash/pumpkin are clearly highly variable and maybe exist as sociolects/completely idiosyncratic family terms. Idiosyncratic and variable terms applied to a much greater diversity of pumpkin types than vocabulary exists to account for, perhaps? I'm pretty sure I call other types of squash kabocha too, that aren't the one in the link...
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Date: 2015-10-28 08:41 pm (UTC)Yes, probably this! I was just coming here to say that what I'm taking away from this is that people's words for different types of squash/pumpkin are clearly highly variable and maybe exist as sociolects/completely idiosyncratic family terms. Idiosyncratic and variable terms applied to a much greater diversity of pumpkin types than vocabulary exists to account for, perhaps? I'm pretty sure I call other types of squash kabocha too, that aren't the one in the link...