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Somme

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Somme, Picardy/France A department named after the river. Its name is said to come from the Celtic samara ‘tranquil’ or possibly from a Gaulish root element sum ‘to swim’.

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Somme

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Somme , department (1990 pop. 548,300), N France, in Picardy, on the English Channel. Amiens is the capital.

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Somme

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Somme •aplomb, bomb, bombe, CD-ROM, dom, from, glom, mom, pom, prom, Rom, shalom, Somme, therefrom, Thom, tom, wherefrom •stink bomb • firebomb • sitcom •Telecom • non-com • intercom •coulomb • pompom • tomtom

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