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#13036 01/06/01 05:40 AM
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My father, a native of Reading PA, which is in Berks Co. PA


My parents also live in Reading, Berks., but in England. Is the Pennsylvania one also pronounced Redding?

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Is the Pennsylvania one also pronounced Redding?

Yep. My college roommate's from PA. I never did like that
pronunciation. Everybody knows that in Monopoly, it's the
Reeding Railroad!




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Not on my Monopoly board it wasn't. We had Marylebone, King's Cross, Liverpool Street, and Fenchurch Street.

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Really Bingley. Did they also change the names of the places like Park Place et al?


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There was a Park Lane (the second highest rents if I remember rightly) but no Park Place.

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Top o' the mornin' to you, Bel. Parker Bros. had licensed each country to make its own MonopolyŽ board - For many decades, NZ used the UK edition. I, like a lot of other Kiwis, grew up thinking that the UK set was the original, I was about 25 when I learned that the original was modelled on Atlantic City, NJ. The New Zealand edition features streets and railway stations from around the country, rather than just one city, one of them being a Marine Parade from a city 18km from where I live.


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I note the discussion on the various versions of Monopoly. I think it is good that there are now versions for major cities although I'm not convinced by the special edition versions such as "Rugby World Cup 1999 Monopoly" which was sold in Edinburgh last year. I'm sure that London will hate the diversification in the UK (the places on the board became tourist attractions). It was a major ambition of mine and many other British children) to see places like Park Lane and Mayfair. I still go out of my way to go through Marylebone Station if I get a chance!

I am fairly sure that the London version of Monopoly has been made by Waddingtons since 1934/35 but I also spotted this press release from Hasbro (who took over Parker Brothers), claiming that they "swapped" the UK rights for Monopoly for the USA rights to Cluedo sometime after 1949: http://www.hasbro.co.uk/corporatePR/corporatePRcontent.asp?articleType=ARTICLE&PRID=7

The origin of the game of Monopoly was the subject of a long running disagreement with a friend from the USA, before the days when we could surf the internet for (mis)information. We were all convinced that the UK version must be the original until she pointed out that the American game was set in Atlantic City - she claimed that if it had been an adaptation then surely it would have been a major city like New York or San Francisco - she won!


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Our family tried the game, but ended up renaming it "Monotony". I've never understood the appeal, except for the really rich who use legal tender to play it.

Incidently, for non-Londoners, it might help if I point out that Marylebone Station is out of the way for everybody unless they live in Marlow or Beaconsfield (pronounced "Beck - - ")


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Two of the places on the London board are not streets, Mayfair and Angel Islington: just in case any of you come over from Australia or NZ wanting to tour them. (Apparently it's virtually impossible to do the tour in a single day.)


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(Apparently it's virtually impossible to do the tour in a single day.)

This is a reflection on the state of London's transport chaos - it used to be quite feasible (if exhausting) mostly using the Tube - - it was considered cheating if you did not get off the train and go up to street level!


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