What's the difference between boor and bour?

Boor


Definition:

  • (n.) A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
  • (n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
  • (n.) A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
  • (2) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
  • (3) The symbolist writer Merezhkovsky, piqued, had characterised all futurists as boors.
  • (4) The alternative is too terrifying; that mad, flawed, myopic boors are running our clubs.
  • (5) The role of the nurse in giving information to patients has grown considerably following the work of researchers such as Hayward (1975), Boore (1978) and Wilson-Barnett (1978).
  • (6) You don’t talk to them the way Sattler talked to Gillard, unless you want to be quite explicit about the fact that you are a rude, ill-mannered, nasty little boor.
  • (7) But that doesn’t mean he is obliged to lower the tone of a damaged politics still further by pronouncing in the style of a saloon bar boor.
  • (8) Nor are they necessarily so superficial that they can only see him as a loud-mouthed boor.
  • (9) Malevich took up the cudgels: "Boors continue to follow on one after the other and I've lost count of how many there have been in our time!

Bour


Definition:

  • (n.) A chamber or a cottage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using stock isolates of each of the 15 serovars (A to K, Ba, L1, L2, and L3) of C. trachomatis, the lower limit of sensitivity for the DNA probe ranged between 1,086 inclusion-forming units (IFU) for serovar E (Bour) to 2,930 IFU for serovar L1 (440), with the only exception being serovar C (TW-3), with which 99 IFU was detected.
  • (2) Pressed on the details of the policy, Louise Bours, Ukip’s health spokeswoman, said it was “not beyond the wit of man” to devise a workable scheme.
  • (3) Four mortar shells also hit homes in Sabaa al-Bour, just north of Baghdad, killing three people and wounding six, police said.
  • (4) Meanwhile on Sunday, police said mortar shells slammed into several houses in the Shia village of Sabaa al-Bour, about 20 miles (30 kilometres) north of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding seven.
  • (5) Prior C. pneumoniae infection did not prevent subsequent C. trachomatis serovar E (Bour strain) infection.
  • (6) The audience also cheered Peter Whittle, the culture spokesman, who decried multi-culturalism; Jane Collins, the employment spokesman for saying Ukip would stop employers being sued for discriminating in favour of British workers; and Louise Bours, the health spokesman, as she called for NHS managers to be regulated and foreigners to have medical insurance.
  • (7) Ukip dominated much of Thursday night's edition of Question Time – which featured Ukip MEP Louise Bours on the panel – causing much chatter on Twitter.
  • (8) Other parked car bombs went off in quick succession in the Shia neighbourhoods of New Baghdad, Habibiya, Sabaa al-Bour, Kazimiyah, Shaab, Ur, Shula as well as the Sunni neighborhoods of Jamiaa and Ghazaliyah.
  • (9) However, the same sera effectively neutralized a trachoma serovar, E(Bour).
  • (10) Primary and serially passaged cells were found to be highly refractory to infection by Chlamydia trachomatis strains TW-3, Bour, and LGV 440L and Chlamydia psittaci strains meningopneumonitis and 6BC and insusceptible to poliovirus type 1.
  • (11) When Louise Bours, the health spokeswoman, decided to resign in the middle of one of Farage’s rallies in a row over NHS spending .
  • (12) Whether Ukip’s new female spokespersons, such as Suzanne Evans and Louise Bours, will stem this decline remains to be seen.
  • (13) In a more surprising move, Bours also committed the party to working with the Unite union to stopping the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP), a trade deal opening up the NHS to US health providers, although the government has already promised this will not happen.

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