You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. From Wordnik.com. [Notice of Revocation of Independence] Reference
You will learn that the suffix burgh is pronounced burra (e.g. Edinburgh). From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Report: Blair refuses to back Iran strike.] Reference
You will learn that the suffix ‘burgh is pronounced ‘burra’ e.g. Edinburgh. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces] Reference
Hollande we reached Aachen, as the fond natives call the burgh so dear to Charlemagne. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
As a former 'burgh' girl, my favorite is the North Side Steeler shirt cupcake. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrate Official Cupcake Day in PIttsburgh!] Reference
Well, I think I'll rest my weary body in this 'burgh' for a few weeks to come. From Wordnik.com. [That Girl Montana] Reference
As a specimen of an early "burgh," or hill fortress, its form well deserves study. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
Carnegie spells the final syllable "burgh," and pronounces it with a loving oatmeal burr. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference
The burgh settled to its Lowlandishness with something of. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
BRIDGE OF ALLAN, a police burgh of Stirlingshire, Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Bishop John of St. Andrews the site of the burgh of that name, so. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
BANFF, a royal, municipal and police burgh, seaport and capital of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
BUCKIE, a fishing town and police burgh of Banffshire, Scotland, on the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
AYR, a royal, municipal and police burgh and seaport, and county town of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
The burgh was originally called Parva Kinghorn and later Wester Kinghorn. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Argile -- burgh or landward -- the best bred and gentlest of them, I mean. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Nearing them from the High Street of the burgh, the first prominent object is. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
We arrived at the royal and ancient burgh of Linlithgow at about nine o'clock. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
The coopers, carpenters, riggers, caulkers and seamen of the town ruled the burgh. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
Life in the rude days of the Emperor Maximilian I, with scenes in burgh and castle. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
The burgh is under the jurisdiction of a provost and council, and unites with Macduff, Elgin. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
It was clear warm weather, never a breath of wind to stir the gilding trees behind the burgh. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The burgh of Paisley was endowed with the usual privileges, and a right to hold a market every. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
And if the burgh was dull and dark, night after night there was merriment over the drawbrig of the castle. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Rosemarkie, and was united with it in 1455 by James II. as a free burgh under the common name of Fortrose. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
The son of respectable parents of the industrial class, he received an ordinary education at the burgh school. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
BURNTISLAND, a royal, municipal and police burgh of Fife, Scotland, on the shore of the Firth of Forth, 5¾ m. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The Paymaster and his two brothers lived with sister Mary on the upper flats of the biggest house of the burgh. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
It was now a burgh, boasting a coat-of-arms on which was represented a plum-tree with a fox on either side, and the motto. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
At the burgh school of that place he received an ordinary education, and in his thirteenth year hired himself as a cow-herd. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
The solitary constable of the burgh was not present to preserve order, or, if he was, his apparition was totally unrequired. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
"What think you of my ceremony in calling at the earliest chance to pay my devoirs to the Provost of this burgh and his daughter?". From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
This story was so plainly fabricated to ease my apprehension that down I went, incontinent, and sought the right tale in the burgh. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I was prepared for change from the complaints of my father, but never for half the change I found in the burgh town of MacCailein Mor. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
He was a jocular fellow with the right heart for a duello, and in his nipped burgh Gaelic he made light of the disturbance and his injury. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Bailies, by virtue of their office, are invested with certain judicial and administrative powers within the burgh for which they are appointed. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Wick is the only royal burgh and one of the northern group of parliamentary burghs which includes Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall and Tain. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
For they cost the burgh siller, and there might have been some talk in the council about the loss of them, that I would little like to have heard. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
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