LONDON MARATHON (n.) Annual run that doth make claim to be not a race, that clearly it is.

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LONDON LICKPENNY (n.) Something that licks up, or is a drain upon, one’s money, from an early 15th-century ballad that today doth refer to the price of London housing.

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LONDON GAZETTE (n.) Daily organ of the Government that doth announce promotions awarded to individuals much in favour of the Great and Good.

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LONDON CLINIC (n.) Hospital famed for its clients, Chilean dictator Pinochet inadvisedly used the clinic for a bad back and was promptly arrested by the peelers.

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LONDON CLAY (n.) Dark brown deposit, which Londoners claim to be unique, despite geological evidence, much favoured in the manufacture of poor people’s houses.

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