Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: quisling
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
Brewer's: Langbourn Ward
(London). So called from the long bourn or rivulet of sweet water which formerly broke out of a spring near Magpye Alley. This bourn gives its name to Sharebourne or Southbourne Lane.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
 Related Content
|
Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
