Colonel John "Cummings" Was the First Owner of 'Cummington'

The name didn't show up on Behind the Last Name, so I started searching Douglas Harper, "Online Etymology Dictionary"

Searching for "Cummings" didn't find anything; so I searched "Cumm" and "Cum," and the closest things found were:

cumin 

Old English cymen, from Latin cuminum, from Greek kyminon, cognate with Hebrew kammon, Arabic kammun.

cum laude

1872, originally at Harvard, from Middle Latin, literally "with praise," from Latin cum "with" + laude, ablative of laus (genitive laudis) "praise." Probably from earlier use (in Latin) at German universities such as Heidelberg.

So we can see that 'Cummings' (seed of 'Cummingtonite') is also the fruit of "with" or "spice (maybe 'herb,' but nobody pays much to see 'The Herb Channel')."

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"Cummington" (Massachusetts) is a Word-Seed with 'Cummingtonite' as Fruit

Upon starting to research this, I found out a) that the word for place-name history is "toponomy" and b) that there is no toponomy-dictionary online (unless you count the lucky place-names that find space in Douglas Harper's "Online Etymology Dictionary".

But I did find Cummington, Massachusetts on AmericanTowns.com. There, a bit of the town's history confirmed what I suspected about the town's name:

AmericanTowns, Town of Cummington
... There is a town-hall, and a free public library of some 6,000 volumes. The nucleus of this library was presented by William Cullen Bryant, who was a native of the town.

Other eminent men, natives of the town, were Thomas Snell, D.D. (1774-1862), clergyman and historian; Luther Bradish, LL.D. (1783-1863), a lawyer of learning and eminence; and Henry Laurens Dawes (1816), United States senator.

... This town was sold by the General Court to Colonel John Cummings in 1762. The first settler was a Mr. McIntire from Scotland, who moved into the place in 1770. Many of the early settlers came from Bridgewater and Abington; and among them was Dr. Peter Bryant, father of the poet Bryant.

So we can see that 'Cummington' (seed of 'Cummingtonite') is also the fruit of the name of the town's first owner - "Cummings."

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Celebrating the Birth of the Diamond-Purity (whence Perversion Continuously Congeals)

That's right, today is Doctor Marina Orlova's birthday! A few days ago, she posted a video about the ongoing natural force within which she hides the diamond-spark of words' wisdom—the natural force that carried her to the top of the media-world's brain (whence she rains-down life's supernatural powers upon her dear students) ... but the perversion returns, and she just redirects it into goodness again! Marina be praised! LoL

Doctor Marina Orlova, HotForWords

So we can see that 'Cummingtonite' (forgetting the obvious, perverted chuckle most readers have at the unfortunately-named mineral's expense) is the fruit of the town's name - "Cummington" (of the name "Colonel John Cummings").

That type of perversion so-often present in today's- and the future's-language, Doctor Marina was easily diverted into the "lexadaisical" search for other such words. To uphold the honor of our Lady (she does own Scottish land), I now go on to research the mineral's name more-deeply ... to find out how deep this 'pervy' goes ...

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