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| '''Komkommertijd''' is a ] word, literally meaning "] time". It is in reference to the lull of news stories that occur during the summer ] period - that the news in the papers are as thin and watery as a cucumber. Another explanation is: it is the period of the year when every succesive day there is a story in the paper about another longest cucumber - plus a picture with the owner, of course. | |||
| There are variants of this concept in other languages, such as ] ''agurktid''. | |||
| Other languages have similiar terms for the sparse summer period: ] has the dull season ''la morte-saison'', ] has '']'' and ''big gooseberry time'', ] has the news drought ''nyhetstorka'', and ] has the summer hole ''Sommerloch''. | |||
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