>Austin Rivers on his IG live right now: "You should've seen the Nets team that we were playing tonight. Patty Mills, Blake Griffin, Cam Thomas were the only ones we knew."
>"I was guarding anonymous" ... Lol. Austin's going off.
>[Wojnarowski] The Denver-Brooklyn game today has been postponed, sources tell ESPN.
I always assumed that Cambridge was conventional in that it got its name from the River Cam it sits on. It turns out that that's correct, but through a convoluted etymology.
The river's original name was the River Granta, perhaps named after an earlier Brythonic settlement in the area, Cair Grauth.
The city founded on the river was accordingly called Grantabricg (Granta-bridge). By the time Middle English came around, the city's name had (through changes in pronunciation) evolved to Cantebrigge, and it eventually became the modern Cambridge.
People then back-formed the name "Cam" from the new pronunciation of the city and assumed that Cambridge must sit on the Cam due to its name. And now the lower stretches of the river are called the Cam, rather than the Granta.
So:
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Brythonic settlement of Cair Grauth gives its name to the River Granta
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The settlement on the Granta is named Grantabricg (Granta-bridge)
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The name of Grantabricg changes to Cantebrigge, then Cambridge
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People rename the River Granta the Cam due to the new form of the city's name.
So it's a river named after a settlement named after a river named after a settlement
Just in case you were not aware, there is a very good live webcam panning the coastal bar and Town Beach.
https://preview.redd.it/m2fwbllafzm71.jpg?width=646&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0797d81f790508f2693877ba652ac9959aa40fc0
Thank you.
Seriously, here we are 362 days later to flatten the curve (fyi, I am a mask wearing, let's open up vaccine to anyone who wants it and get it out there, social distancing, fool).
And it is a Friday.
But this live cam is 85% guaranteed to make you smile.
