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"Svend" (svend) 02/28/2018 at 23:03 • Filed to: None

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Well it turns out we had a 3.2 earthquake or rather tremor here in Cumbria yesterday epi-centre was Mosser, just south of Cockermouth.

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Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Svend 02/28/2018 at 23:26

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3.2 is so small you can barely feel it... You could mistake it for a diesel lorry running a block away.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Svend 02/28/2018 at 23:34

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Cockermouth is a very unfortunate name for a town.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Svend 02/28/2018 at 23:45

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Who the hell names towns in England? Cumbria cockermouth?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 02/28/2018 at 23:46

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It’s next to Cumbria.

Ash78, voting early and often > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/01/2018 at 00:05

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Bria doesn’t take kindly to your orders. In fact, she’ll never call you again.

Ash78, voting early and often > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 03/01/2018 at 00:09

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Every river there has a mouth and a ford, and sometimes a bridge. And the towns keep the clever names.

Old trading towns get “-wick” and fortified towns get “-chester” or “-cester” (IIRC). There was a lot of rhyme and reason at one point. Svend is at the crossroads of Scottish, English, Welsh, Norse, and Norman cultures, so there’s a lot of blending.

TMI, sorry.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/01/2018 at 00:21

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IN Cumbria. Cumbria is a county.

GIYF.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/01/2018 at 00:22

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Again, one is a county.

There were more unfortunate ones I recall from my time there...

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Svend 03/01/2018 at 00:59

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One can never tire of British town names!

On a serious note, is structural safety ever a concern? Britain is not really prone to earthquakes or hurricanes, so a lot of very old buildings survive for centuries.

Chinny Raccoon > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 03/01/2018 at 06:36

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Cockyard, Dick’s Pitch, Three Cocks, Titley & Bush Bank are all local places. There’s certainly more.

Svend > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 03/01/2018 at 06:38

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Not really. It’s a town at the mouth of the River Cocker.

Svend > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/01/2018 at 06:54

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Cockermouth is a town at the mouth of the River Cocker and Cumbria is the English for Cymru, (Wales is also another form of translation for Cymru hence why in Welsh, Wales is pronounced Cymru), which means Land of the Celts which used to live here. Cumbric was a language spoken in this region, one of about six spoken in this region up and down the west of modern day England about 2,000 years ago. Some of the dialect still reflects that.

Such as counting to ten in our dialect of yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hothera, dothera, dick.

Okay, this will make you smile too then, 20 is bumfit, so it’ll go, yan-bumfit, tyan-bumfit, tethera-bumfit up to 30 which is a giggot.

Svend > Chinny Raccoon 03/01/2018 at 06:55

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You can’t forget Twatt in the north of Scotland.

Sir Halffast > Svend 03/01/2018 at 06:57

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“Just south of Cockermouth” means that she stuck a finger in the bum, no?

Svend > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 03/01/2018 at 06:58

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Not really. Some my sustain slight damage in the form of a crack going through the property or a section of wall falling down. Larger more modern buildings have to comply with earthquake specs anyway.

Svend > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/01/2018 at 07:02

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It is in an area that rarely gets them.

Svend > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/01/2018 at 07:04

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It’s in Cumbria. And is also where M-Sport is located and makes it’s rally cars.

Svend > Ash78, voting early and often 03/01/2018 at 07:07

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Cumbria means Land of the Celts and Cumbric is the language or dialect of Celtic that was spoken here and the modern day Cumbria dialect is reflected in it.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Svend 03/01/2018 at 07:15

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But it sounds like not very subtle code for a blow job.

Svend > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 03/01/2018 at 08:38

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It’s just one of those quirky names like Sahara Desert, Sahara means desert so it’s actually called Desert Desert. Or Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria. Different nations have invaded and called the hill, just that, a hill or Tor, in their language, the next called it a hill but knew the settlement at it’s base as Tor, so called it Tor pen, pen being hill in their language, the next did likewise with the settlement at it’s base now being known as Torpen how, how being hill in their language, the settlement now being known as Torpenhow, so the settlement is effectively called hillhillhill while the hill itself is effectively called hillhillhill hill.

Language is an amazing thing. Like the orange, it wasn’t called that for it’s colour. The name of the colour came about because of the fruit because originally there was no name for the colour orange and was called red, red was red and modern day orange was called red too. So Robin Redbreast was called that because the breast was known as red at the time even though in modern day, it’s called orange.

We class tomatoes as vegetables even though it’s a fruit, strawberries as berries even though the seeds are on the outside, etc...