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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Old English byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”) (whence borough).
Due to the collapse of the case system between Old and Middle English, many placenames retain a fossilized dative form, as places would most commonly have been invoked in the dative (after a preposition in, at, to etc.).
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