{"id":10013,"date":"2014-05-20T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2014-05-20T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:16:24","slug":"logoburroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10013","title":{"rendered":"Logoburroo and other place names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If an Australian visitor to the UK asked you for directions to somewhere they called <strong>Logoburroo<\/strong> [l\u0254g\u025c\u0289b\u0259\u02c8r\u028a\u02d0] would you know what place they were referring to? <\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine heard an Australian pronouncing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loughborough\">Loughborough<\/a>, a town in Leicestershire in central England, in this way and thought it was an interesting attempt at the name. The usual pronunciation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/loughborough.mp3\">[\u02c8l\u028cfb\u0259r\u0259] (luff-buh-ruh)<\/a> or [\u02c8l\u028cfbr\u0259] (luff-bruh).<\/p>\n<p>Loughborough features in the Doomsday Book of 1086 as &#8216;Lucteburne&#8217;, which possibly comes from the name <em>Lehedeburh<\/em>, &#8220;the town of Lehede&#8221; (named after someone called Lehede) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestershirevillages.com\/loughborough\/loughborough-in-2005.html\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p><em>Burh<\/em> is variant form of the Old English word <em>burg<\/em> (city, town, fort, stronghold, dwelling place), which comes from the Proto-Germanic <em>*burgz<\/em> (fortification, stronghold, fortified city), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*b\u02b0\u0259rg\u02b0-<\/em> (fortified elevation), from <em>*b\u02b0er\u01f5\u02b0-<\/em> (to rise; high, lofty; hill, mountain) [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/burg#Old_English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Borough, burgh, brough and bury, which all come from the Old English <em>burg<\/em>, are common elements in English place names, e.g. Loughborough, Canterbury and Middlesbrough; and are also found in Scottish place names as burch and burgh, e.g. Edinburgh and Jedburgh. Related words are also found in Dutch (<em>burcht, burg, borg<\/em> &#8211; castle, borough), French (<em>bourg<\/em> &#8211; market townn), German (<em>burg<\/em> &#8211; castle, fortifcation), and the Scandinavian languages (<em>borg<\/em> &#8211; castle, city).<\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Indo-European root <em>*b\u02b0er\u01f5\u02b0-<\/em> (hill) is also the root of the Proto-Celtic word <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Appendix:Proto-Celtic\/brixs\"><em>*brixs<\/em><\/a> (hill), from which we get the Brythonic word <em>*brig\u0101<\/em>, which is part of the name Brigant\u012b, the Celtic tribe that occupied a large part of northern Britain at the time of the Roman invasion (43 AD). The element <em>briga<\/em> also appears in Gaulish place names; and  from the same root is <em>bre<\/em>, an obsolete word for hill in Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Scottish Gaelic (also <em>br\u00e9\/br\u00ed<\/em> in Irish). <\/p>\n<p>Hill is usually <em>bryn<\/em> in Welsh, <em>cnoc<\/em> in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and <em>torgenn<\/em> in Breton; and the elements brae\/bray\/bre appear in some English, Irish and Scottish place names.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Leicestershire is pronounced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/loughborough.mp3\">[\u02c8l\u025bst\u0259\u0283\u0259]<\/a> (lestuh-shuh).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an Australian visitor to the UK asked you for directions to somewhere they called Logoburroo [l\u0254g\u025c\u0289b\u0259\u02c8r\u028a\u02d0] would you know what place they were referring to? A friend of mine heard an Australian pronouncing Loughborough, a town in Leicestershire in central England, in this way and thought it was an interesting attempt at the name. 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