Underground Stations

[Fae]

Hi - I am stuck for the final answer of this 1991 quiz. The answer is an Underground Station - the Clue is Aspirateless aim of the M.D.

All help gratefully received

[dayvaux]

Ealing (Healing without the "H") ?

[Baldric]

Could be on here !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_London_Underground_stations

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds good.

aspirate - 1. Linguistics. a. To pronounce (a vowel or word) with the initial release of breath associated with English.

i.e. Removed the vowel.

[Old_Geezer]

I am getting so fed up with typing the wrong thing of late. Obviously not the vowel, obviously the consonant.

[dayvaux]

Calm down OG :
as·pi·rate
n. (-pr-t)
1. Linguistics
a. The speech sound represented by English h.
b. The puff of air accompanying the release of a stop consonant.
c. A speech sound followed by a puff of breath.

[Peter Pedant]

come on Old G

the aspirin H - no elision in French so it is "le heros" = the hero
The H in Hollande is aspirated and that is why we say 'franswa ollond'
and not 'franswazolland' (the last was a liaison but what the hell I say)
In Greek all the initial vowels can be aspirated and that is a little 'c' over the letter and if it is not aspirated then it is a backwards 'c'

In Hindi.... you can aspirate almost any consonant

and we in English aspirate and dont know it often
try saying 'spit' to yourself and you will identify a little little 'h' in between the 'p' and the 'i'. This would be a separate letter in Hindi (they say)

[jno]

yes, you have to be careful not to pronounce the French plural of hero as layz ayroes, as that's the zeros.

Sorry, I'm getting off topic a bit but as the question has already been correctly answered...

[ichkeria]

...tho there isn't actually an Underground station called just "Ealing", but it's probably the right answer.
After all the question made up the word "aspirateless" :-)