"Corn" in UK English has historically meant cultivable grains in general, not "maize" specifically as in North America. Also, "pumpkin" is a standard English t

"Corn" in UK English has historically meant cultivable grains in general, not "maize" specifically as in North America. Also, "pumpkin" is a standard English translation for the Latin and Greek terms that, if you want to be pedantic, were just "gourd". See e.g. The Pumpkinification of Claudius [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocolocyntosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocolocyntosis