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Burg vs Berg - What's the difference?

burg | berg |

As nouns the difference between burg and berg

is that burg is a city or town while berg is mountain, a large mass or hill.

As a proper noun Berg is

a place name, notably of.

burg

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (North America) A city or town.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1921 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Efficiency Expert , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one burg where I could make good. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , date= , year=2009 , month=June , first=David , last=Thriault , author= , coauthors= , title=This Way In: The Sound and the Fury , volume=151 , issue=6 , page=6 , magazine=Esquire , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me. }}
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  • , date= , year=2010 , month=Feb , first=Paige , last=Orloff , author= , coauthors= , title=Big Style on a (Little) Budget , volume=33 , issue=2 , page=84 , magazine=Country Living , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills. }}
  • (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.
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    berg

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mountain, a large mass or hill.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2004 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Alan Goldfein , title=Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe" , chapter=A Wonderful Drive citation , genre= , publisher=American Editions , isbn=9783000143571 , page=46 , passage=There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ... }}
  • An iceberg.
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , date= , year=1997 , month= , first=David J. , last=Rugh , author= , coauthors=Kim E.W. Shelden , title=Spotted Seals, Phoca Largha, in Alaska , volume=59 , issue=1 , page=1 , magazine=Marine Fisheries Review , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=The ice was thin, and only a few areas had bergs large enough to support marine mammals. }}

    References

    (Webster 1913)

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