This subject just keeps coming up.
cum \KUM; KUHM\, preposition:
With; along with; combined with; -- often used in combination.In 1999 he finished converting an old dairy into a sort of village -- a hip warren of apartments adjoining a restaurant and bar, some art galleries, some studios, and an "e-mat" (a laundromat-cum-cybercafé).
-- Bill Donahue, "Byte, Byte, Against the Dying of the Light", The Atlantic, May 2001Pretty soon, we're digging up the lunch, washing it off at a stand pipe and heading for the shed-cum-kitchen, where the two burners are quickly pressed into working overtime.
-- Bob Granleese, "A bumper crop", The Guardian, September 14, 2002The memorial service cum political rally for Senator Wellstone brought the sacred low.
-- William J. Bennett, "A Party of Corruption?", National Review, November 4, 2002Mark Humphrey, the rising star among interior designers, has created a highly-collectable dual-function, chrome and walnut candlestick-cum-rose vase.
-- Nick Pandya, "Making Christmas a one-off", The Guardian, November 2, 2002
Got nothing to do with me.
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Well, perhaps that someone was a little bit sheltered and just didn't realise the effect it would have on most of the jaded people out there.
Or they knew exactly what they were doing and wrote it for a laugh.
Can you believe my verification word is czfunnq! Sort of a cross between a Czech funk band and er, something else.
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