{"id":109,"date":"2011-04-25T18:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T23:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2011-04-26T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:16:46","slug":"old-worlds-new-light-cumberworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Old Words, New Light: 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this first entry to Old Words, New Light, I offer you\u00a0(drum roll, please) cumberworld.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

What a fantastic old word–cumberworld<\/em>–softly rounded, laden with\u00a0nuances of dark burden\u00a0and undertones\u00a0of melancholia. Jeffrey Kacirk of Forgotten English fame tracked the word back to Robert Nare’s Glossary (of) the Works of English Authors 1859<\/em> and the definition: “That which is only a trouble, or useless burthen to the world.” Kacirk also offered the following 1593 poem by Michael Drayton entitled Shepherd’s Garland<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“A cumberworld, yet in the world am left,<\/em><\/p>\n

A fruitless plot, with brambles overgrown,<\/em><\/p>\n

Mislived man of my worlds joy bereft,<\/em><\/p>\n

heartbreaking cares, the offspring of my moan.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Cumberworld,<\/strong> a\u00a0charming antique word which\u00a0I think\u00a0ought to be resuscitated and rejuvinated, painted into prose with the careful, affectionate brush strokes\u00a0of those logophiles and wordsmiths\u00a0who share my desire to\u00a0salvage beautiful words that may be falling by the wayside. I ask you: why say “useless crapheap” when you could say “cumberworld”? *grin*<\/p>\n

For more lovely disappearing words, please see Jeffrey Kacirk’s: http:\/\/www.forgottenenglish.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this first entry to Old Words, New Light, I offer you\u00a0(drum roll, please) cumberworld.\u00a0 What a fantastic old word–cumberworld–softly rounded, laden with\u00a0nuances of dark burden\u00a0and undertones\u00a0of melancholia. Jeffrey Kacirk of Forgotten English fame tracked the word back to Robert Nare’s Glossary (of) the Works of English Authors 1859 and the definition: “That which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[24,25,23,26],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-words-new-light","tag-antiquity","tag-english","tag-logophilia","tag-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}