"cumberbund"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:11 AM +0800 11/20/08, Randy Alexander wrote:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OfaYHD-uH0
>That should be better.
>
>Randy

I didn't manage to see the lyrics, and I have to confess I find it
difficult (old fogey that I am) to listen to them, but it sounded to
me like "cummuhbum"

LH

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>On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Marc Velasco <marcjvelasco at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>  can you repost the link?  I get this error:
>>  The URL contained a malformed video ID.
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>>  On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Randy Alexander
>>  <strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>  > At 2:17:
>>  > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OfaYHD-uH0You can click "more info" in
>>  the
>>  > grey box in the upper right hand corner to see the lyrics.
>>  >
>>  > Can we make the courthouse lawn event in late December or early January?
>>  >  That's something I really wouldn't want to miss.
>>  >
>>  > : P
>>  >
>>  > Randy
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>>  > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
>>  > > -----
>>  > > -Mark Twain
>>  > >
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>>  > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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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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