"jubilee" wrongly stressed

[John Skelton]

The OED gives jub-i-lee, which seems to be the standard. I wonder if the jub-i-lee pronunciation has been influenced by the Jubilee Line, since I suspect the alliterative Jub-i-lee Line trips off the tongue so easily.

Thanks. And I think the Jubileeeeeeee Line might be the answer (that and in my case my sloppy, recidivist pronunciation ). Correctly, then:

"Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call
Ye to each other make; I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;
My heart is at your festival,
My head hath its coronal,
The fulness of your bliss, I feel--I feel it all."

Wordsworth, 'Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood'

[french frank]

'Course, not being a Londoner, I would say the JUB-ilee Line anyway . I knows no better

[John Skelton]

I knows no better

I think you mean you nose nah batter ....

[french frank]

I think you mean you nose nah batter ....

Actually, the question of altered stress and rhythm is interesting: I believe a well-known novel was referred to not infrequently as Captain Corelli's MAN-dolin. But the instrument is a mando-LIN.

And why would we say VICTORIA Street, but Victoria ROAD ... ?

[PatrickOD]

....and if you've heard of BEL-fast, you might have difficulty scanning:'

'May the Lord in his mercy be kind to Belfast'.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Lines that make you laugh

The 'Jubi-lee' thread has gone into quote mode, so it has prompted me to start this thread.

The theme here is favourite lines, quips, sayings, lyrics snatches that have made us laugh down the years. My opening gambit is this:



'My Great Aunt Maud got eaten up while singing 'Rock of Ages'.

(from Noel Coward's 'Uncle Harry')

[french frank]

"Sir! you have disappointed us!
We had intended you to be
The next Prime Minister but three:
The stocks were sold; the Press was squared:
The Middle Class was quite prepared.
But as it is! . . . My language fails!
Go out and govern New South Wales!"

(Lord Lundy: H. Be-LLOC)

[greenilex]

I think loan-words often have debatable pronunciation - certainly for the first few centuries.

[Segilla]

For a variation on the theme, around 1968, when my little lad was first allowed to ride his bike round the village where we lived, he went past Jubilee Cottages.
He came back and told us that he'd seen Jubbly Cottages - Lovely Jubbly being a then current TV ad.

[Segilla]

Victoria Street / Road.

As a NW Londoner - I stress 'Street' and 'Road'.

[amateur51]

For a variation on the theme, around 1968, when my little lad was first allowed to ride his bike round the village where we lived, he went past Jubilee Cottages.
He came back and told us that he'd seen Jubbly Cottages - Lovely Jubbly being a then current TV ad.

I live 'on' the Jubilee line and 'Jubbly' it is

[Bryn]

I live 'on' the Jubilee line and 'Jubbly' it is

You must be pretty Fleet of foot to keep ahead of the trains.

[vinteuil]

You must be pretty Fleet of foot to keep ahead of the trains.

... ah, the Fleet Line! - thanks for the memory

[amateur51]

You must be pretty Fleet of foot to keep ahead of the trains.

I was once insufficiently fleet on a train that was 'terninating' & got whisked off (Matron!) at Queen's Park into the potato sidings. All was swiftly resolved by a very nice driver who was very keen that I should make a complaint if I wanted to, but as it was entirely my own fault, I didn't.

[amateur51]

... ah, the Fleet Line! - thanks for the memory

Was that the one that went from NW London to Broad Street?