Showing posts with label borough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label borough. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2012

burrow, borough, burro

Burrow or burrow means the home an animal has dug in the ground--
What shall we do? The groundhog won't come out of his burrow!
Some small animals live in an underground burrow.
Burrow is also a verb ( action word ), meaning to dig in the ground, so as to make a hideout or a place to live--
Look--the groundhog has been burrowing all day.
The creature will burrow under the roots of a tree to make a sturdy home.

Borough or borough ( rhymes with burrow ) means a small town or part of a town--
A small town that doesn't provide all of its own municipal services is sometimes called a borough.
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

Burro or burro ( rhymes with burrow ) means the small animal that looks like a tiny donkey--
They had a pet burro that would let the children ride on its back.
A burro can sometimes carry a small load for people.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The burro stumbled into the rabbit's burrow, and its braying could be heard all over the borough."

Note--not to be confused with borrow, meaning to ask for the use of an item, meaning to return it--
We go to the library to borrow books.
May I borrow your pen?