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Thread #32707 Message #2846791
Posted By: GUEST,PeterC
22-Feb-10 - 01:12 PM
Thread Name: Help: Origin of word 'maudlin'?
Subject: RE: Help: Origin of word 'maudlin'?
One of my favorites is Marylebone. Just about every variant seems acceptable except Mary-le-bone.
As McGrath said It breaks down with incomers. I now live in Chesham. I have had my pronunciation corrected in other parts of the county to Chess-am or Chezzum but I never hear either locally although I have heard recordings of local people using those pronunciations in the 1950s
One the other hand a local will seldom refer to Rickmansworth as anything except Ricky.
Back to the original in Oxford the college and the street are "Maudlin" but I believe that the suburban Magdelen Road is pronounced as written.