Burn vs Dun

Burn

name
  • A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928). 

  • A surname. 

Dun

name
  • A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659). 

  • A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet. 

  • A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test. 

  • An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England. 

  • A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River. 

How often have the words Burn and Dun occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )