Pringle

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Etymology 1[edit]

  • (surname): Habitational, from a place near Stow Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from Middle English hop (“enclosed valley”) + a name of Old Norse origin composed of the byname Prjónn (“pin, peg”, cognate with English preen) + an unidentified second element.[1]
  • (borough of Pennsylvania): Named in honor of Thomas Pringle.
  • (town in South Dakota): Started as a stage stop on the Sidney-Custer Trail, operated by Henry Pringle.

Proper noun[edit]

Pringle

  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Georgia.
    2. A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
    3. A town in Custer County, South Dakota.

Etymology 2[edit]

There are several theories:

  • Named after Mark Pringle, who filed a US Patent 2,286,644 titled “Method and Apparatus for Processing Potatoes” on 5 March 1937.[2] Pringle’s work was cited by Procter & Gamble (the original seller of Pringles) in filing their own patent for improving the taste of dehydrated processed potatoes.[3]
  • Two Procter advertising employees lived on Pringle Drive in Finneytown (north of Cincinnati, Ohio), and the name paired well with “potato chips”.[3][4]
  • Procter & Gamble chose the name from a Cincinnati telephone book.[5]
  • “Chosen out of a hat” to promote a family name appeal.[6]

Noun[edit]

Pringle (plural Pringles)

  1. An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.
    • 1984, Oliver Bloodstein, Speech pathology: an introduction:
      Prizant and Duchan found that some echoes were modified to serve the function of requests. For example, to the question "What do you want?" one child answered, "What do you want a Pringle."
    • 2005, Shane A Bernskoetter, Surviving Twilight: A Soldier's Chronicle of Daily Life in Iraq:
      We watched him for a few minutes as he explored the area and then I broke off a piece of a Pringle.
    • 2007, Ronnie Blackwell, Serve It Cold:
      And who am I, an avid nacho-cheese Doritos with pinot blanc fan, to cast aspersions? I was nibbling on a Pringle when something caught my eye.
    • 2009, Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power:
      Alas, the pizza-flavored Pringle rollout never happened in Italy, but in the United Kingdom and the United States, the snacks have been a hit.
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References[edit]

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pringle”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130, column 3.
  2. ^ Mark Pringle, Herman F. Lame (1987 March 5) Method and apparatus for processing potatoes, US Patent 2286644.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Andrew Martin (2011 April 5) “Once a Great Flop, Now Sold for Billions”, in The New York Times‎[1].
  4. ^ “How Pringles got its name”, in Procter & Gamble Everyday Solutions Canada‎[2], 2012, archived from the original on 14 July 2012.
  5. ^ Ethan Trex (2010 July 27) “Where Did 'Pringles' Come From? The Stories Behind 7 Salty Snacks”, in Mental Floss.
  6. ^ George Lazarus (1969 February 13) “Big Firms Wrestle Over Chips Name”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram‎[3].

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