c-u-c-u-m-b-e-r

Updated: August 1, 2026

I have not been to school for nothing; not I. The English call c-l-e-r-k, clark; and c-u-c-u-m-b-e-r, cowcumber; and a-n-g-e-l, aingel; and no reasoning can convince me that's right. I've got a string of words of this sort, that they pronounce out of all reason, that's as long as a pair of leading-lines, or a ship's tiller-rope.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Wing-and-Wing: Le Feu-Follet