content: 2026-05-20 capture run — 67 finds across 25 productive sources

Seven-day gap since the 2026-05-13 sweep. Pool grows from 347 → 414 finds.

Productive: r/macapps (10), r/shortcuts (5), Six Colors, MacStories,
Daring Fireball (3), Brett Terpstra, Wallpaper* Travel (5), AFAR (3),
The Outbound Collective (3), r/BuyItForLife (3), Kottke.org, Web Curios
(5), Recomendo, Cool Tools (2), Wikiquote, The Marginalian (3),
A.Word.A.Day (2), Quote Investigator, r/dadjokes (7), icanhazdadjoke (3),
Things Magazine (3 — first new post in 6 weeks).

Source-maintenance flags this run: Reddit JSON endpoint rate-limits hard
on >10 per-post fetches in a 60s window (mid-run hero fetch failed for 6
posts); switch to extracting previews from the top listing JSON at scan
time. Atlas Obscura no longer Cloudflare-blocked but homepage falls back
to evergreen 2017-era pieces. A Continuous Lean dormant for 8 runs.
Things Magazine cadence: weekly → monthly (not quarterly as flagged on
05-13).

7 new source nominees in candidate-sources.md.

src/content/find/2026/05/cucumbers-cowcumbers/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "Cucumbers Were Once Called 'Cowcumbers'"
+subtitle: "An archaic English name for cucumbers, still used in some 18th-century texts"
+date: 2026-05-20
+link: https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/cucumbers-used-to-be-called-cowcumbers/
+linkText: "historyfacts.com"
+source: "Kottke.org"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [language, etymology, history]
+description: "'Cowcumber' was the standard English pronunciation of 'cucumber' through the 18th century — a folk etymology that lasted long enough to outlive most native English vegetable names."
+---
+
+"Cowcumber" was the standard English pronunciation of "cucumber" through the 18th century, retained in lower-class speech into the 19th. The folk etymology comes from a misreading of the Latin *cucumis* mixed with the assumption that the long fruit must be related to cattle somehow. Surfaced via Kottke.