The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127154   Message #2833688
Posted By: MGM·Lion
09-Feb-10 - 04:00 AM
Thread Name: Anti-Heroines in Traditional Song?
Subject: RE: Anti-Heroines in Traditional Song?
Crow Sister - Magdalene College Cambridge & Magdalen College Oxford are both always pronounced 'Maudlin' within their universities, so your discovery is no news to us Bluesers. In the song Magdalene Green, however, about the open space in Dundee, it is pronounced 'Madeleine', like a French cake.

Kitty - surely the Feathery Wife a real heroine: no 'anti-' about it?