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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #18 on: Friday 31 December 10 01:18 GMT (UK) »
I went to school there and my local family members pronounced it Marra-le-bon.
No idea how it is pronounced nowadays  ;)

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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #19 on: Friday 31 December 10 02:28 GMT (UK) »
I went to school there and my local family members pronounced it Marra-le-bon.
No idea how it is pronounced nowadays  ;)

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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #20 on: Friday 31 December 10 11:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Joe, It was Regent's Park, Lisson Grove.

Pat ...
Every time I find an ancestor,
I have to find two more!

SUFFOLK - Pendle, Stygall, Pipe, Fruer, Bridges, Fisk, Bellamy, Sparham - all link to  Framlingham 
DERBY - Bridges and Frost (originally Framlingham/Parham)
NOTTINGHAM - Lambert & Selby
BERKSHIRE/then Hammersmith LDN - Fulker
LDN/MDX - Murray, Clancy, Broker, Hoskins, Marsden, Wilson, Sale
 
GGfather Michael Wilson born Cork, lived Fulham London - moved to Boston USA 1889, what happened next?

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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #21 on: Friday 31 December 10 12:11 GMT (UK) »
Marr - ah - la - bone.

(But I'm an Aussie so don't know if my vote counts.  ;))


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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #22 on: Friday 31 December 10 12:42 GMT (UK) »
I think it's fine and accepted in London to say either Marleybone, or Marrylebone. But I don't think Londoners say Mary Le Bone.

Does that help?  ;)

(I was born in Clapton, East London, so I think I can claim some degree of expertise here!!!)
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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 02 January 11 11:03 GMT (UK) »
I used to call it ....'the other station'.   

The reason being, where I used to live in rural Buckinghamshire, the trains would  either go to Paddington or 'the other one'.......being 'Marlabone'. ;)

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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 05 January 11 13:36 GMT (UK) »
In my experience, Londoners tend to say 'Marleybone' and everyone else says 'Marry-le-bone'. The locals' pronunciation sometimes catches out census enumerators elsewhere in the country when recording birthplaces -- you see 'Marleybone' quite often for people born there but resident a long way from London.

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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 05 January 11 13:43 GMT (UK) »
My brother delivers to the area fairly frequently, and says he gets away with "Mair-lee-bone", but he doesn't know if that's right!

Possibly more confusing, is Magdalene Street, in Cambridge.

Best not go there....!

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Re: How do y'all Brits pronounce "Marylebone"?
« Reply #26 on: Wednesday 05 January 11 20:59 GMT (UK) »
In my experience, Londoners tend to say 'Marleybone' and everyone else says 'Marry-le-bone'. The locals' pronunciation sometimes catches out census enumerators elsewhere in the country when recording birthplaces -- you see 'Marleybone' quite often for people born there but resident a long way from London.
That is a very general statement Fosseway .............. London is a VERY big place and dialects did change practically within a few streets .. see my reply No 6.
I was born on the border of Paddington and Marylebone just off the Edgware Road in 1927 and when I was old enough to appreciate how my several and  closely living uncles and aunts used to pronounce it the difference was as variable as has been shown in this topic by others.
Now when I am feeling 'posh' I say Mary-le-bone but my grandparents and mum and dad said 'Marrabun' with the 'u' almost silent like 'Marrab-n'.
I suspect that in these more modern times people will lean toward  Mary-le-bone .................. I learned to say it (Marrab-n)  before I could understand the 'written' word because my folks said it and no doubt it was the same for them.
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