On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Basil Jet wrote:

I always assumed that it was either Eye-zl-dn or Eye-yl-dn, but
apparently Isledon was the old name for Islington. This makes me think
it must be Iz-ler-dn, since that's the only pronunciation which could
conceivably drift into Islington.

I say aisle-dn. But i've only lived round there for a couple of years, and
have never actually heard anyone local pronounce it.

I suspect both those names are separate corruptions of whatever the
anglo-saxon original was (Isildur?), and when anglo-saxon gets corrupted,
it sometimes gets really properly corrupted, so i wouldn't try to infer
too much about the pronounciation of one from the spelling of the other.

tom

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