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Another candidate might have been London Outer Orbital Path.
Richard | 21.03.23 - 7:18 a.m. | #
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London Underground Ltd operates The Tube, so could be in there; and there are the London Fire Brigade and the London Ambulance Service.
Last century the LCC would have been worth a mention, but its demise was an astonishingly long time ago.
Betterbee | 21.03.23 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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Perhaps the most pervasive London Something would have been the London Peculiar, though as it was (a) a temporary phenomenon and (b) long gone, there’s no room for it here. Cheerfully, it might have been the London Something that killed the most people.
Philip Downer | 21.03.23 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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London Peculiar lives on - as a soup - though thankfully can’t be blamed for killing many people
Brian | 21.03.23 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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"These days it's officially London Heathrow Airport" - is it? What an owner calls its property is always a good indicator, and in this case its plain Heathrow (no London); and IATA describes its location as Heathrow (similarly Gatwick, Luton, Biggin Hill and Stansted, but London Oxford and London Ashford).
Does what Wikipedia describes as the "London Airport system" actually exist as a system, or is it just an unconnected collection of airports in the same geographical area?
Betterbee | 21.03.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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Unless there was some restriction, it's odd that no company bagged the name London as the name for their terminus when the railways were being built (although many had 'London' in their names), Broad Street, Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street could all have laid claim to be 'the' London - the street names only became known because of the presence of a station.
Perhaps the London rail system is the least Londony.
Still Anon | 21.03.23 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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As memorably celebrated here: discogs.com/release/1133461-Fergie-London-Bridge
Alan | 21.03.23 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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Great. By the repetitive force of this article, the word London now looks wrong to me.
bDarren | 21.03.23 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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Dead right. Just what I anticipated the culmination of this list would be when I started reading it.
Waterhouse | 21.03.23 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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Seconding the comment by bDarren, I've read the word London so many times in this article it now looks wrong.
David | Homepage | 21.03.23 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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bDarren and David, the phenomenon is semantic satiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
Exiled Edgwarian | Homepage | 21.03.23 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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I once worked for London Underground Ltd, which sounds (and felt) like "London Underground" to me.
Heathrow's IATA shortcode is "LHR" which sounds like London Heathrow.
London Pride? Flower or beer?
David B | 21.03.23 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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Just how "iconic" is it though?
On Google images, the first hundred hits I got for "London Bridge" had
5 for the current bridge
5 for its predecessor, now in Arizona
3 for the medieval bridge
3 for the railway station
85 for its downstream neighbour
(adds up to 101 because one picture showerd both bridges)
timbo | 21.03.23 - 9:46 a.m. | #
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The bridge (b) as a concept is fine, but is very much Trigger’s broom (b), while for the past thousandish years there has only been one Stone (S). Not quite sure how to weigh the Londonyness there. The most Londony thing of all must be the er, London OrbitalMotorway.
jpmac | 21.03.23 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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I wish to argue. There is far too much confusion in many people's minds between London Bridge and Tower Bridge so best to steer clear lrest there be any misunderstanding about the intended bridge.
Both London Underground and the London Eye suffer from marketing people interfering with their underlying names which do deserve to be contenders.
Good to hear the ridiculous "ZSL" shoehorned into London Zoo's name has been dropped. A zoo is still just a zoo anywhere though.
Andrew S | 21.03.23 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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Opened by which Queen? Don’t we have to name her now we have King Charles? Just asking.
Mike Jones | 21.03.23 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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London Bridge is a worthy top-spot-taker. If there was a top ten, I agree with jpmac that the London Stone should be close to the top, and if non-physical manifestations were allowed, the London Assembly, too, as they help define aspects of Londonyness.
commonliner | 21.03.23 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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I’d say the most Londony London thing, recognised around the world (unlike London Bridge) as an icon, is the London Bus. And services are managed by London Bus Services Ltd, so there you go.
Betterbee | 21.03.23 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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Being a bit picky, I don't think it was the spannableness of the Thames which caused early London to be where it is, but rather the fordableness (as it was then).
Malcolm of Kent | 21.03.23 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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I'm definitely going to be using that phrase today. Never experienced it when reading before (only spoken), so this has brightened my day considerably.
bDarren | 21.03.23 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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The Thames was more fordable further upstream, near where Vauxhall Bridge is now - which is why Watling Street (the A2 and A5), which pre-dates the Roman bridge, goes that way.
Fordable = shallow
Spannable = narrow
timbo | 21.03.23 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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bDarren makes a good point. The more you look at the word 'London' the stranger the word becomes. Was it ever pronounced as it's spelt, and not as 'Lundun'?
Stuart R | 21.03.23 - 11:13 a.m. | #
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The London Stone?
Nick | 21.03.23 - 11:16 a.m. | #
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Agreed. 100% It is why London is here and not anywhere else. Romans sailed up the Thames and stopped here. To build a bridge, trade and eventually run the rest of the country from right here. Now track down all the old bits of the bridge demolished in 1832 which have resurfaced elsewhere. Guys hospital is a good place to start. And a trip to Arizona (for the 1832-1973 bridge).
south london lad | 21.03.23 - 11:20 a.m. | #
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London Hospital is another one that has been renamed.
Kim | 21.03.23 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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What about the London Cheesecake :-)?
Trevor S | 21.03.23 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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When marketing to an overseas audience, the London taxi and the London phone box appear to rate highly for recognisable Londoniness.
Frank F | 21.03.23 - 12:31 p.m. | #
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BetterBee. Yes, the London airports system is a real thing. If you don't care which of London's airport you want to travel through, you search with code 'LON' on any airline system and that searches for flights through any of the six designated London airports
IslandDweller | 21.03.23 - 12:51 p.m. | #
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The new Greater Anglia trains have internal screens which show the mainline terminus as London Liv Street. I don’t know what I find more mysterious: the fact that today’s software can’t spell out the full name or the fact that it is seen as more customer friendly to shorten Liverpool rather than simply drop the London prefix.
helloitisme | 21.03.23 - 1:15 p.m. | #
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London Bridge it is.
Let's hope it doesn't fall down!
Cornish Cockney | 21.03.23 - 5:31 p.m. | #
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The London Stadium? I will always think of it by its original name though
David | 21.03.23 - 6:39 p.m. | #
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South Eastern just show Charing Cross or Victoria, which, if you are new to England, must be most confusing as there is no indication that you’re going to London.
Stephen | 21.03.23 - 8:38 p.m. | #
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Tower of London
Harry | 22.03.23 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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Re Mike Jones: I assume we are referring to the latest Queen Regnant if no other description is given. And with the date, the answer is easily searchable even 100 years in the future.
Patrickov | 23.03.23 - 5:48 a.m. | #
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helloitisme - There are parts of the Greater Anglia network where it is possible to go to both London and Liverpool on a single service, and tourists sometimes get the wrong one. I suspect that it doesn't say `Liv` because the system can't cope, but because it helps people end up at the correct station.
Kirk | 24.03.23 - 2:10 p.m. | #
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