User talk:Uffda608/Archives/2022/July

Aggersund

Hi, With a population of 290 I don't think this qualifies as a town. That is a village. I have never seen "village" used to describe a settlement in North America but in Europe it refers to a settlement of dwellings centred around a church. I don't know Danish at all, although I have been to Denmark, so do not know the ins and outs of settlement taxonomy there, but in the UK a village has a church and has a population of up to the low thousands, I think the largest village in the UK is Heacham in Norfolk which had a population of over 4,700 in the 2011 census. Please don't take this the wrong way I am just curious as to how such a small settlement gets called a town? Quetzal1964 (talk) 14:10, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi! I was a bit unsure what term to use myself, so I'm happy to hear your opinion. In Danish, there is little linguistic difference between a town, city, or village; they may all be called a "by". However today Aggersund is often refered to as a "landsby". This does not directly translate to "village", but it does suggest that it is a primarily agrarian settlement. I would agree that in English it seems to make more sense to call it a village, especially considering is declining size. Because of this, I've now changed the terminology on the page to "village". Thanks for your input, Uffda608 (talk) 17:00, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Here in eastern Scotland a town is a burgh and town or toun could mean anything from a ferm toun, a cluster of houses around a farm, which was sometimes be fortified, to a city. So that linguistic incertitude in Danish is in other languages too. The by suffix occurs in England too, especially in the old Danelaw, but not in Scotland. I think for a settlement of less than 500 people, village is an appropriate name. Quetzal1964 (talk) 21:52, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

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