"Offramp" wrote in message
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What could be more straightforward than an announcement in the Tube
carriage that "This is North Greenwich, alight here for the O2"?

But the "O2" part is said as if she were saying, "Oh to be in England"
and someone pinched her bum after the first two words.

I think the announcement used to be longer (02 Arena?) and it has been
truncated, hence the abrupt speech pattern.

MaxB