Re: CHAT : Origin of the name "Northumbria"

Rodlox wrote:

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>From: Joe <joe@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:03 AM
>Subject: Re: CHAT : Origin of the name "Northumbria"
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>>Andreas Johansson wrote:
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>>>Quoting Joe <joe@...>:
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>>>>No, it does originate from that.  I think that Southumbria was found in
>>>>some texts, actually.  It comes from 'Norþhymber', I believe, which has
>>>>a pretty transparent origin.
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>>>Not from _what_, but from _where_; I'm not interested in the etymology,
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>>>_where_ the name was coined, specifically whether in Northumbria itself
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>>>somewhere south of the Humber.
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>>Ah, right.  Well, either possibility seems likely to me.  Because
>>Northumbria was the union of two kingdoms (Bernicia and Deira), it is
>>possible it was a name coined for the new entity by the Northumbrians -
>>called so because it now contained all the lands north of the Humber.
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> I always thought it was pronounced "north-umbria"...didn't know about the
>Humber.
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> so, it's actually "nort-humbria" then?
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No, it's pronounced as expected.  The /h/ just got absorbed into the /T/.

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