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Default Why did the Metropolitan Railway go to Verney Junction?

Martin Edwards wrote:

Viz the Northern belief that the whole population from Milton Keynes
to Brighton are cockneys.


They are. They all say "Fink" instead of think. "Fireen" instead of
thirteen. Then they bust out with songs like "Boiled Beef and Carrots".