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Post by whollygoats on Sept 28, 2014 14:31:44 GMT
I've known about cucumbers forever, even though I doubt that I'd miss them if I'd never made the acquaintance.
Then, I heard about Cumberland, as in the Cumberland Gap of the North American Appalachian region. This, I understand, is named after Cumberland, in England. Presumably, both regions have surfeit of cumbers, which garnered them the nomenclature.
Now, we have Mister Benedict Cumberpatch infesting our entertainment venues. Seemingly it is a name which arose from his forebears having some connection with patches of cumbers.
Cucumbers, Cumberland and Cumberpatch.
What is a 'cumber', that there are cues of it, a land of it, and patches of it?
Or...are cucumbers really Q cumbers? To distinguish them from P cumbers and and R cumbers?
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Post by jayme on Sept 28, 2014 14:51:57 GMT
I don't know. It's all so cumbersome.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 28, 2014 16:19:47 GMT
Oooo...I'd forgotten that one. Just some cumber. I guess there is no cumberall?
Well...I looked 'cumber' up in my American Heritage Dictionary and it says that cumber means 'to burden', 'to hinder or hamper', or 'to create disorderly piles'.
Hence...To 'encumber' is to hinder. But nothing about 'cucumber'....the N cumber, but not the Q cumber.
I'm betting the Mister Cumberpatch is so because his ancestors were the local hoarders.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 28, 2014 16:20:03 GMT
Duplicate post.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Sept 29, 2014 18:10:51 GMT
Ah yes . . . . . the notorious cumber. As celebrated in that ole campfire song "Cumber agh! Milord! Cumber agh!" And of course Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Cumber into the garden Maud" Then there are the well known groups of Germans who tie red sashes around their waists. They are the Cumberbunds
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Post by Moose on Sept 29, 2014 19:12:37 GMT
I don't know. But Cumberland is now known as Cumbria
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Post by Miisa on Sept 30, 2014 9:18:42 GMT
It's Cumberbatch.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 30, 2014 13:42:44 GMT
Now, there...showing my ignorance of celebrity. Good. So, Cumberpatch, Cumberbatch. Disordered, one way or another, no? Oh...and I do like the cumberbund reference....disordered German alliance - around the waist. Perhaps it's what happens when Germans are wasted?
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Post by JoeP on Sept 30, 2014 17:57:41 GMT
You get burdens on roads, too. "Adverse cumber."
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 30, 2014 19:41:58 GMT
You get burdens on roads, too. "Adverse cumber." I guess when you cant camber, you cumber. Adversely?
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 1, 2014 12:14:44 GMT
Windy Miller lived near Cucumberwick Green!
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Post by kingedmund on Oct 4, 2014 23:52:12 GMT
*Looks confused and scratches head.*
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