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Thread #32707   Message #431561
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Apr-01 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: Help: Origin of word 'maudlin'?
Subject: RE: Help: Origin of word 'maudlin'?
And in France of course it's Madeleine.

Maudlin seems a very reasonable way to pronounce the name, myself, as in Magdalen College Oxford, and maintains the link with the adjective - in Cambridge they pronounce their Magdalene College with the hard G. Pays your money and you takes your choice.