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John Dudley, "Etymology of the Name of Leicester", The Gentleman's Magazine 184, 1848, 580–582, citing Wilford, Asiatick Researches vol. ii. No. 2 (1812), p. 45:"The learned Somner says that the river which runs by it [Leicester] was formerly called Leir by the same contraction [from Legora], and it is probably the river Liar of the anonymous geographer. Mr. Somner, if I be not mistaken, places the original own of Ligora near the source of the Lear, now the Soar".
