"cumberbund"

[Neal Whitman]

I was born to a father who grew up in Georgia and a mother who grew up in
Texas, grew up in Texas myself, and went to my high school proms wearing a
"cummerbund". This discussion is the first I've learned about the
"cumberbund" pronunciation.

Afraid I can't make it to the courthouse lawn where either Arnold or Wilson
lives, but I'll look for the video on YouTube.

Neal Whitman
Email: nwhitman at ameritech.net
Blog: http://literalminded.wordpress.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: "cumberbund"


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> arnold, if you can find a random black person or a random Southerner
> of any race who doesn't say "cumberbund," I'll kiss your ass on the
> courthouse lawn and give you 45 minutes to draw a crowd. "Matlock" is
> set in the South, right? And Andy Griffith is from the South, right?
>
> You remind me of that GI from Darien, CT, who was stunned to hear a
> Southerner say, "Git _you_ a tray!"
>
> -Wilson
>
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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> -Mark Twain
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> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
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>> caught this (spoken) in an episode of Matlock.
>>
>> not in OED, NOAD2, or AHD4 as a variant of "cummerbund".  is in
>> Merriam-Webster Online as a variant (without further comment).  the
>> two spellings are listed as variants (with "cumberbund" first) in Q&A
>> Times.
>>
>> but the Wiktionary just labels "cumberbund" as a misspelling of
>> "cummerbund".  Brians doesn't mention it.
>>
>> plenty of sites treat "cumberbund" as the spelling.
>>
>> arnold
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