8 April 2000 - cumin is Sumerian

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2000 : 8 April 2000

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Cumin is Sumerian,
Little kinkajou.
Plovers feed on clover seed
That springs from Waterloo,
Kinkajou.

clue:

Compare the famous medieval song in Middle English:

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu.
Sing, cuccu!

Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu
Bulloc sterteth, bucke ferteth.
Murie sing, cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu,
Wel singes thu, cuccu.
Ne swik thu naver nu!

Sing cuccu nu, sing cuccu!
Sing cuccu nu, sing cuccu!

give me a clue so sweet and true

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