Marylebone

[TeenageWildlife]

How do you pronounce this? Is there a definitive way?

Marr-le-bn

See Wiki. It has a sound clip on the first line.

Can't hear the sound clip...

Mar-lih-bone.

Mah'bn

Really Boys? I say Marr-le-bn but am never sure.

Same as Abr1de.

While we're on the subject, am I being pretentious to say Aldwych as "Alditch"? Had always thought it was correct, now beginning to feel like a wanker as everyone else seems to pronounce it as it's spelled.

Aldwych is propnounced Awld-witch as far as I know - I work off the Strand and no one has ever pronounced Aldwych any other way.
Marylebone is pronouced as Abr1de suggests.

Only ever heard Awld-witch!

Well, it's official.

I am a wanker.

I had always suspected as much.

What about Holborn?

I used to call it Hole-burn but have since heard 'Hoe-burn', 'hole-born', and even 'Holl-born'.

Hoe-burn.

But that may be my lazy South London way.

I say marry-l'-b'n

and hoe-b'n

but usually get looks.

I always think Hoe-b'n sounds fake posh Hyacinth Bouquet style. I say Hol-burn and feel a bit common these days.

Holborn is in fact really spelled:

Houghloughoughtonboughtonfeatherstone.

It was just shortened so that common people could pronounce it.

Marb'n

With a sloght l sound between l and b.

Holborn to me is hrlb'n

But what do I know. I am from Devon anyway so the pronunciation has definitely got a wurzel egde to it.

LOL tethers
you're not as much of a wanker as me. i thought the stop at the Essex end of the central line was pronounced "Theydon Bwah".

I though my aunty spelled Tooting Bec wrong when she moved there.

I thought 'nothing ends with a c like that in english' and addressed letters to Tooting Beck.

She lives in Chigwell now so all well (not really, I mean Chigwell)

Oh you prize ponce!

psst. I did too when I first saw it.

Its The Aldwych, isn't it?

Yes, definitely The Aldwych.