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Ivor Brown, in one of his delightful books on words, Random Words (1971), writes that Cuthbert had been an honored English name, but that somehow during the 1914—18 war it “ceased to be a name and became an insult” and was used of slackers who evaded military service.
Of Course, Cuthbert
Kirkcudbright (`Church of Cuthbert'), the name of a small former Scottish county and its main town, is pronounced “kir-KOO-bree”—which Brown reports is said by the natives with a “dove-like murmur.”
Here is what he had to say about Saint Cuthbert, an English monk who became Bishop of Lindisfarne and who died in the year 687:
Now back to Cuthbert the saint.