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"Magdalen" is pronounced Maudlin. That's how Oxford's locals detect 'tourists' ;)


Although as any fule kno, that’s true only of the college, and not the street in the centre of town; this is how town detects gown.


Hello, Molesworth major.


Yes, I stumbled over the headline because I think the writer wants it to rhyme, but it doesn’t.


The allusion to Robbie Burns / John Steinbeck in the title felt a little odd too, notwithstanding there being a mention of mice in the body of the article.


Then I got it wrong the entire time I was there, lol.




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