Namings :: Cambridge
 
In ancient days 
the town of Ugg was filled 
by what would now be rudely called 
Neanderthals and peasants, 
and occasional flounced academics.
 
But the rich boys and the clever boys 
resented the rough and common culture, 
They caused a language strike-out 
against the sounded names; 
the hills of Gog Magog 
became the 'Local Ridge'.
 
But 'Local' was too wuss. 
A horizontal jogging entrepreneur, 
who gifted screaming services 
loud and hidden on the hills 
to gentlemen with cash, 
was Madame "Catherine Anna Maud Belgique". 
She was known, in spoken code 
when wives were nosy near, 
by her "Camb" initials.
 
Up grew the town 
around the flouncing schools, 
whose name became, 
from those wildly-rumour hills, 
Camb Ridge. 
But when that times' 
unhumoured censorship collapsed, 
those earthen lumps 
reverted back 'The Gog Magog'.
 
So now the town was only named 
for gifted screaming services. 
An academic city 
named after a horizontal professional? 
A king with cash to budget 
sensitive to scandal? 
Something must be done. 
But luck had struck; 
the river could be named again, 
the town could claim 
a story good for getting grants, 
pseudo-history's "Cambridge".
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