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Michelle: 'Humpkin' rhymes with 'pumpkin'.
Me: Yes it does. I don't know if there's such a thing as a humpkin, but if there were, it would rhyme with pumpkin.
Michelle: Humpkin is a Hebrew name for a squirrel.
I don't know whether she means that 'humpkin' is the Hebrew word for squirrel, in which case she's incorrect, or that it's the Hebrew personal name of a particular Jewish or Israeli squirrel, in which case I suppose it could be the case. I mean, there's no Humpkin in the bible (I think), but those sounds all exist in Hebrew, so...
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PS I checked with Michelle. It's the personal name one.
Me: Yes it does. I don't know if there's such a thing as a humpkin, but if there were, it would rhyme with pumpkin.
Michelle: Humpkin is a Hebrew name for a squirrel.
I don't know whether she means that 'humpkin' is the Hebrew word for squirrel, in which case she's incorrect, or that it's the Hebrew personal name of a particular Jewish or Israeli squirrel, in which case I suppose it could be the case. I mean, there's no Humpkin in the bible (I think), but those sounds all exist in Hebrew, so...
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PS I checked with Michelle. It's the personal name one.