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dbbolton
12y ago
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What about the "cum" in the middle of the sentence?
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baddox
12y ago
It's Latin for "with." It's usually used with hyphens to describe something with dual purpose, so it would be more appropriate to spell it "shoe-cum-charger." It's also used in purely Latin phrases like
magna cum laude
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dbbolton
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12y ago
I knew the Latin meaning. I've honestly never seen it used as a direct replacement for "with" in an otherwise all-English phrase though.
zem
12y ago
extremely common in india, particularly in the phrase sofa-cum-bed.
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