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CUMBRIA
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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CUMBRIA. A county of north-western England since 1974, formed from the former counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, and
LANCASHIRE North of the Sands. It includes
the Lake District or
Lakeland, home of the poet Wordsworth.
CUMBRIC was spoken there until the 11c,
OLD ENGLISH from the 7c, and
NORSE in the 9–11c. Local place-names reflect all three languages: Celtic as in
Culgaith back wood,
Penrith head of the ford, Old English as in
Broomfield broom-covered field,
Rottington farmstead of Rotta's people, Norse as in
Witherslack wooded valley,
Haverthwaite clearing where oats were grown. The
DIALECT of Cumbria is closely related to
SCOTS and to the dialects from North and East
YORKSHIRE northward. Westmorland speech has features in common with the north-western Yorkshire Dales, such as ‘skyool’ for
school and ‘gaa’ for
go. The dialect around Howden in East Yorkshire has more in common with that of Cumbria than with Wakefield, only 20 miles away in West Yorkshire.
The
Lakeland Dialect Society was founded in 1939 to sustain interest in and use of the regional dialect. It publishes an annual journal whose poetry and prose attempts to display precise local usage with distinctive variants in spelling.
See
DIALECT IN ENGLAND,
NORSE,
NORTHERN ENGLISH.
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Government pledges to safeguard West Cumbria's future.
M2 Presswire; 11/1/2004; 700+ words
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 "Lakeland Echo (Morecambe, England)")
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When it comes to wildlife you just can't beat Cumbria.
Newspaper article from: Lakeland Echo (Morecambe, England); 1/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...official. If you love wildlife, Cumbria is the best place to live in the UK...beauty and abundance of wildlife, Cumbria is the county with everything . Joe Murphy, Senior Conservation Officer at Cumbria Wildlife Trust says: I am not surprised...
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Cumbria in pounds 2bn Energy Coast plan.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 2/19/2009; 700+ words
; ...a summit to debate the economic future of Cumbria tomorrow. He will address 250 delegates at Sellafield Visitor Centre. The Cumbria Economic Summit 2009 is being hosted by development agency Cumbria Vision and the North West Regional Development...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The disaster that never was; Cumbria.(Cumbria's economy)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/9/2002; 700+ words
; Since Cumbria was the centre of the foot-and-mouth...Britain's 2,030 FMD cases, 893 were in Cumbria. Economic disaster loomed. A year on...of his 100 cattle. In north and east Cumbria, FMD was devastating: all animals were...
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Cumbria Wildlife Trust celebrate 45th birthday.
Newspaper article from: Lakeland Echo (Morecambe, England); 5/29/2007; 700+ words
; STAFF at Cumbria Wildlife Trust are celebrating the conservation...Wildlife Trusts. Peter Bullard, director of Cumbria Wildlife Trust, said: I would like to...thank you to all those who have supported Cumbria Wildlife Trust over the years, especially...
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Cumbria ( best place to go wild.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 2/17/2007; 664 words
; For lovers of wildlife, Cumbria is the best place to live in the UK according to a...comes to variety, beauty and abundance of wildlife, Cumbria is the county with everything . Cumbria comes out on top with a combination of 104 nature reserves...
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Cumbria is facing challenging times.(Business)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 6/5/2003; 700+ words
; ...By Brian Nicholls Those mountains of Cumbria are so imposing that it's easy to overlook...Compston, the Cumbrian-born chairman of Cumbria Inward Investment Agency set up in 1996...already. The challenges are to ensure Cumbria gets at least its fair share of inward...
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Perseus SurveySolutionsT helps Cumbria County Council collect valuable feedback to improve public services.
M2 Presswire; 7/4/2005; 700+ words
; ...Corporation: Perseus SurveySolutionsT helps Cumbria County Council collect valuable feedback...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04072005 London, UK - Cumbria County Council has today confirmed that...its Consultation Management Systems. Cumbria County Council wanted to increase the...
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Cumbria stick with their young guns.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 1/6/2004; 700+ words
; Byline: By Alan Hedley Cumbria are sticking by their youth policy...top try scorer last season with the Cumbria Under-20 side, and Cockermouth...player in the county last season. Cumbria team manager Roger Hackney said...
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Cumbria searching for a new sponsor.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 10/7/2003; 577 words
; Byline: By Alan Hedley Cumbria find themselves without a sponsor for...Under-13s and midi/minis," said Cumbria senior selector and team manager Roger...administrators." For the past 13 years Cumbria have enjoyed successful sponsorship...
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CUMBRIA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
CUMBRIA. A county of north-western England since...where oats were grown. The DIALECT of Cumbria is closely related to SCOTS and to the...Yorkshire has more in common with that of Cumbria than with Wakefield, only 20 miles away...
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Cumbria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cumbria county (1991 pop. 486,900), 2,635 sq mi...by humans since the Neolithic Period. Northern Cumbria vacillated between Scottish and English rule until...The Lake District National Park is located in Cumbria.
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Strathclyde and Cumbria
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Strathclyde and Cumbria A Romano-British kingdom of north-west England and south-west Scotland: formed in the 2nd century AD, it survived until...
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Clifford, Anne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the aristocratic titles to vast lands in Cumbria, in the north of England, that had been...point they already held Brough Castle in Cumbria, which in its original construction dated...England. There was also another castle in Cumbria, this one called Brougham, which had...
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radioactive waste
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
...nuclear waste, which is disposed of at an underground site at Driggs in Cumbria. There are also nuclear reprocessing plants at Dounreay (Scotland) and Sellafield in Cumbria. Formerly, low- and intermediate-level wastes were disposed of in...
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