Talk:London

Name

What about the name London?--Faizaguo 19:02, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

That’s what. —Stephen 21:40, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

"Londons", genitive, without apostrophe

Someone requested "Londons" on WT:REE as a genitive, as in "Londons Remembrancer", "Londons Alarm from Heaven", "the inconvenience of Londons smoke" and "Londons Resurrection". They wrote: "might be Early New English but that's New English (and not Anglo-Saxon or Middle English) too". Why only Londons, though, I wonder. It seems to open a bigger can of worms about old forms without apostrophes in general. Equinox ◑ 14:53, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

• There are multiple places called "London" - shouldn't we have a simple plural. SemperBlotto (talk) 14:55, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

• Done (but doesn't resolve the genitive question above). Equinox ◑ 15:02, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Other pronunciations

In the past, poets have rhymed London with undone, like Byron ("they had all been undone | But for the maker, Mr Mann, of London", Don Juan II) and Percy Shelley ("Hell is a city much like LondonTemplate:substmash [...] There are all sorts of people undone", Peter Bell the Third); Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, in The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2018), also cite Eliot's "Ill done and undone, | London". To the extent we consider /ʌ/ and /ə/ separate, this suggests an older pronunciation of London with /-dʌn/ or of undone with /-dən/.
I have also heard people pronounce it with /-dɪn/, like is found in Londinium, Londinian, Londinensian. - -sche (discuss) 07:16, 22 November 2022 (UTC)