I thought this was another error but now I wonder if it is another American/Canadian/Other spelling mistake (Sorry Australia, England, New Zealand, for lumping you together like that). Is the big orange gourd, a symbol for Hallowe'en, spelled 'pumkin' or 'pumpkin'? Google finds websites with either spelling. The Korea Herald has this photo with the caption 'Pumkins for display only'.
The caption below (my coloring):
A Lotte Department Store displays a variety of pumpkins, a popular ingredient of "Juk," light porridge.
The Herald is giving both spellings in one article. Perhaps the editors were not sure and decided to be wrong once rather than twice.
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THE authority, dictionary.com, has no listing for "pumkin."
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pumkin
Sorry, it's always with two p's.
I've always thought it was two 'p's. I'm just surprised to find so many ocassions where only one 'p' is used.
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