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Bourn vs Ourn - What's the difference?

bourn | ourn |

As a noun bourn

is a small stream or brook.

As a pronoun ourn is

ours.

bourn

English

Etymology 1

Doublet of .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small stream or brook.
  • * Spenser
    • My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn .
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) borne.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • destination
  • limit

    • Quotations

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    See also

    * bourne

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    ourn

    English

    Pronoun

    (head)
  • Ours.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="Supposin'," continued Ward, "that we let two o' your men an' two o' ourn under Mr. Divine, shin up them cliffs ..." }}

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