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I'd rather risk losing the Oyster card. I've had the same one for years, and just add value when I arrive.
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Originally Posted by janisj
(Post 17039867)
I have never heard the 'L' pronounced. (except by visitors who also pronounce Thames and Marylebone as they are spelled)
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Southerner since birth, BIL is cockney policeman He has never heard "l"
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Originally Posted by jc_uk
(Post 17039902)
Well perhaps you need to travel farther south then.
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"Holborn: A perennial puzzler, Holborn is best pronounced using as few letters as possible – o'b'n rather than Hole-born. Ho-bun is probably the commonest form among locals."
https://londonist.com/2011/10/pronunciation |
Yep - the o the b and the rn are the main parts. Elide everything else
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Tomasina Lascelles
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There's probably an ointment for that, Dukey.
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