Talk:Burn (landform)

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Removed

From secn. ==Etymology== bcz it is not on the topic of "Burn", and only serves to de-focus the article:

Also, in Scotland, larger streams may be called water rather than stream or river, e.g. Gala Water, Water of Leith.

(Perhaps it is suitable for use elsewhere in WP or Wict.)
--Jerzy•t 02:41, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Title

"Burn" is a title desperately needing dab'n, as evidenced by a 3-screen Dab page, so the Dab'g sfx should not be ambiguous. In this case, "...(stream)" risks suggesting that the article will be about one stream named "Burn" or "The Burn", and can be made clearer IMO by switching to "...(topography)".
--Jerzy•t 02:41, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Melbourne

>> Its cognate in contemporary English is "bourn", from the archaic (early modern) English "bourne", which in its archaic form is retained in placenames like Bournemouth and Melbourne. <<

Melbourne is named after Lord Melbourne so it doesn't seem an appropriate example; going to remove it. Franknotes (talk) 07:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And Lord Melbourne was from Melbourne, Derbyshire which means "mill stream" or "mill spring". It would have been sufficient to fix the link. --178.202.79.147 (talk) 22:53, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Restricted?

"Its use is restricted." Legally? Or should this be "limited?" -FZ (talk) 14:16, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Listed "Kilburn" back

For the wordbit -burn does indeed sometimes show up placenames in Southern England. Kilburn and Tyburn both being good examples and from all the way down in London too. Ciao ciao.