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Wedgwood's derivation of this word from bague an improvement on that of Ducange from baga, area. Coarse Mr. Wedgwood considers identical with course, that is, of course, ordinary. He finds a confirmation of this in the old spelling. Old spelling is seldom a safe guide, though we wonder that the archaic form boorly did not seem to him a sufficient authority for the common derivation of burly.
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