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Uh-oh--you might not like this, but here's a quote from the Word Detective:
While "bumbershoot" may sound exotic, its origin is remarkably straightforward: it's just a frivolous combination of the "umb" of "umbrella" and the "chute" of "parachute," which umbrellas vaguely resemble, after all. Although "bumbershoot" sounds to many people like an eccentric English, almost Tolkien-esque invention, it's actually an American coinage and the term is generally unknown in Britain. Today "bumbershoot" tends to be used, if at all, in cutesy weather reports ("So take the bumbershoot, all the way from Texas to the Great Lakes," CBS This Morning, 1992).
http://www.word-detective.com/112402.html#bumbershoot
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