On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:23:30 GMT, Olof Lagerkvist
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:03:51 -0600, "Tristán White"
wrote:


"Richard J." wrote in news:0HOsh.113595
:

On the Underground, they are much better than they were, and I have no
complaints at all about Emma Clarke's announcements on the District
Line. What current incorrect pronunciations irritate you?




I think the Plaistow/Playstow has now been ironed out,


It has, but the Bakerloo line gets Marylebone wrong.

Btw, what is really the correct pronounciation of Marylebone? Most
people I hear pronounce it "marlebn" (or something like that) but almost
all encyclopaedias etc that I have checked suggest something like
"mary-lee-bn"...

The conventional pronunciation (at standard speaking speed) (IME) is
"mar-l-bun", "mar" as in "marrow", "l" as the child-like "luh" not
"el" and "bun" as the bread product. It's spoken quickly, so the "y"
doesn't sound, though it modifies the pronunciation of the "a" sound
in "mar" from that in the month "March", and the "r" sound is almost
swallowed as well.

The Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone mention both,
the former is said to be some "common" pronounciation while the latter
variant is said to be correct according to "Marylebone Association".

I think they're being pretentious, in the same way as people who
insist that Cirencester is properly pronounced "Sissister".

The DLR is IMHO even worse, maybe worst of all. It sounds far too
robot-like and in addition a very compressed voice.

I haven't been on the DLR in some time; sounds like I should be
grateful.