[guest39538]

Can't find one ?

[Bored chemist]

So?
Google can find over 20,000 of them.
What are you looking for?

[guest39538]

So?
Google can find over 20,000 of them.
What are you looking for?

Cambridge rivals maybe....

[evan_au]

Isn't there some regular rowing rivalry between Cambridge and Oxford?

On an etymological basis you would say that Cambridge is better technologically, because you don't get your feet wet. As I understand it:
- "Cambridge" is derived from a "bridge over the river Cam"
- "Oxford" is derived from a place in a river (a "ford") where the water was shallow enough for cows (oxen) to splash across the river

[guest39538]

Cambridge and Oxford?

Yes the boat race is pretty famous, perhaps it would be entertaining if the next race we used some outboard motors on the Oxford teams boat  to give them a chance.

[Bored chemist]

Nope
The river is named after the city.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cambridge#Etymology

With my pedantic hat on...
It appears that there was an ancient Celtic town called Cair Grauth beside the Granta River; the location of this town is not now known.
In Old English (c.745), the town now known as Cambridge was called Grontabricc "Bridge on the River Granta".

By Middle English, the name of the town had been corrupted to "Cantebrigge" and eventually "Cambridge", following the Norman invasion.

It is only then that the part of the river through Cambridge was renamed from Granta to Cam to match the etymological roots of Cambridge, as the location of the bridge over the river.

[Bored chemist]

it would be entertaining if the next race we used some outboard motors on the Oxford teams boat  to give them a chance.

In  the time where I have paid any attention (which started roughly the same time that Oxfordhad  won 10 times in a succession) Oxford have won 20 times and Cambridge... havent

[guest39538]

it would be entertaining if the next race we used some outboard motors on the Oxford teams boat  to give them a chance.

In  the time where I have paid any attention (which started roughly the same time that Oxfordhad  won 10 times in a succession) Oxford have won 20 times and Cambridge... havent

Perhaps Cambridge need some sort of spirit then, a lift to help them.  Team energy from having good spirit is   most surely an incentive to perform. 

[Bored chemist]

it would be entertaining if the next race we used some outboard motors on the Oxford teams boat  to give them a chance.

In  the time where I have paid any attention (which started roughly the same time that Oxfordhad  won 10 times in a succession) Oxford have won 20 times and Cambridge... havent

Perhaps Cambridge need some sort of spirit then, a lift to help them.  Team energy from having good spirit is   most surely an incentive to perform. 

I have never seen any group of people with more incentive to perform than the boat race crews.

[guest39538]

it would be entertaining if the next race we used some outboard motors on the Oxford teams boat  to give them a chance.

In  the time where I have paid any attention (which started roughly the same time that Oxfordhad  won 10 times in a succession) Oxford have won 20 times and Cambridge... havent

Perhaps Cambridge need some sort of spirit then, a lift to help them.  Team energy from having good spirit is   most surely an incentive to perform. 

I have never seen any group of people with more incentive to perform than the boat race crews.

One assumes the performance relationship incentive is to impress possible future employers by showing their dedication to the sport .

[Bored chemist]

One assumes the performance relationship incentive is to impress possible future employers by showing their dedication to the sport .

Not really.
They are Oxbridge students. Getting a job is pretty much certain.
 think it's more "Just do it" or "because it's there".

[guest39538]

One assumes the performance relationship incentive is to impress possible future employers by showing their dedication to the sport .

Not really.
They are Oxbridge students. Getting a job is pretty much certain.
 think it's more "Just do it" or "because it's there".

Maybe it is something they enjoy doing , a good sport .

[evan_au]

Nope
The river is named after the city.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cambridge#Etymology

With my pedantic hat on...
It appears that there was an ancient Celtic town called Cair Grauth beside the Granta River; the precise location of this town is not now known.

In Old English (c.745), the town now known as Cambridge was called Grontabricc "Bridge on the River Granta".

By Middle English, the name of the town had been corrupted to "Cantebrigge" and eventually "Cambridge", following the Norman invasion.

It is only then that the part of the river through Cambridge was renamed from Granta to Cam to match the etymological roots of Cambridge, as the location of the bridge over the river.

[Bored chemist]

Is someone time travelling?

[Bored chemist]

Anyway, with my pedantic hat on...

- "Cambridge" is derived from a "bridge over the river Cam"

is wrong

"Nope
The river is named after the city.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cambridge#Etymology"

is right and, belatedly, your assertion that " the part of the river through Cambridge was renamed from Granta to Cam" is the same as I said in the first place.