Burgh vs City - What's the difference?
burgh | city |
(Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
(UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
A large settlement, bigger than a town.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city'; the ' city of one's dreams.
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In uk|lang=en terms the difference between burgh and city
is that burgh is (uk) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in scotland) while city is (uk) a metonym for the united kingdom's financial industries, which are principally based in the city of london.As a noun burgh
is (sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).As a proper noun city is
(uk) a popular shortened form of the city of london, the historic core of london where the roman settlement of londinium was established.burgh
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(cities)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}