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WaldoMcFroog | 16:36 Wed 01st Sep 2004 | People & Places
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Since the college is preseumably named after the biblical figure, how did 'Magdalen' become pronounced as 'Maudlin' yet the Biblical character's name is pronounced properly? I would have thought that if the pronounciation of one altered, so would they both!
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See: www.pepysdiary.com/p/419.php
16:57 Wed 01st Sep 2004
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Mary Magdalen is prounounced "Magdalana".
22:34 Wed 01st Sep 2004
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Magdelene Street in Cambridge is 'maudlin', while Magdalen Street in Norwich is 'mag-da-len'. Not strictly relevant, but I just thought I'd share!
22:49 Wed 01st Sep 2004

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