Talk:Burford

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Should that second option just be an r-coloured schwa  or do people really say "Burrrrrrrford"? I wouldn't have thought Burford was quite south-westerly enough for such a strongly rhotic accent. I'm probably wrong, but it seems best to seek clarification so I thought I'd leave a note. — Trilobite (Talk) 11:59, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If that's the case the second option should probably go, otherwise we'd be justified in having options for every conceivable pronunciation by a native English speaker: slightly different vowels for people from different parts of England and so on. Also, I'm not sure that the area is quite as firmly non-rhotic as you suggest. I've left a message on the talk page of the user who added the pronunciation note to see if he can shed any light. Good to see pronunciation guides on Wikipedia! — Trilobite (Talk) 06:31, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: I don't know myself whether writing r-coloured schwa means anything different from writing schwa followed by an r. I had sort of assumed one was more pronounced or noticeable than the other but sitting here trying to pronounce 'Burford' with varying degrees of rhoticity I'm wondering if it's essentially all or nothing. At least we have confirmed there are rhotic speakers in the area which clears up the confusion. As for clips of IPA sounds Wikipedia has quite a few sound samples, reached from various articles but a good starting point might be International Phonetic Alphabet for English or table of vowels perhaps or all the articles along the lines of fricative consonant for consonants. Also some of the external links on International Phonetic Alphabet lead to pronounceable charts like this one. I'm very much in favour of putting IPA pronunciations in Wikipedia, especially for place names, but I tend to chicken out of having a go at them myself because it's such a minefield trying to get it right. — Trilobite (Talk) 09:53, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: The backwards epsilon is the most usual way of representing the "NURSE vowel" of RP; Oxford uses the schwa in order to keep the number of symbols it uses to a minimum. As for "Big Ben", I know nothing about the character, but according to Burford (disambiguation) there is no Burford in America (though there is one in Canada). User:Angr 10:23, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

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message: Burford's most significant feature, the one thing that hits any visitor immediately, is that it's on a huge slope. The whole place seems to be built on a 45-degree incline. This should be made much clearer in the article. BartBassist (talk) 16:24, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The most significant feature of Burford 

message: Revisiting the article again, after a gap of a few weeks, I notice how unbalanced its structure is. Chrisemms (talk) 22:18, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article as a whole 

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message: The text says that the name is from 'burh meaning fortified town or hilltown', suggesting that fortified town and hill town are the same thing. The element burh is very familiar, usually at the end, e.g. Edinburgh, Peterborough, Middlesbrough, and is usually interpreted as indicating a fortified place. Does this really apply to Burford, or does the Bur part mean 'hill' in this case, as I was told today in conversation? Or is it not known which it is, so that the text should say something like 'burh, a fortified place or burh [or whatever] a hill' [i.e. different etymons]? Or do they have the same etymon, a place on a hill being easier to defend? Snugglepuss (talk) 21:07, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toponym