Oxford & Cambridge
Post 1
Started conversation Feb 25, 2011
'Tis not so!
Oxford's Magdalen college is pronounced 'Maudlin'.
Cambridge's Magdalene college should, by all rights, be pronounced 'Mag-de-leyn', because the spelling has been bastardized.
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Oxford & Cambridge
Post 2
Posted Feb 25, 2011
Furthermore, the village of Over in Gloucestershire, which is most notable for having a socking great big queue of traffic in it between 7am and 9am every weekday morning, is rather entertainingly pronounced 'oover'.
B
Oxford & Cambridge
Post 3
Posted Feb 25, 2011
Do you have a definitive source for the Cambridge pronumciation of 'Magdalene'? Most Google hits on the first couple of pages seem to support both colleges being pronounced 'Maudlin'.
And do you ever drive through Oover at night?
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