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    Former good article nomineeLuton was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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    November 21, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
    January 25, 2007Good article nomineeNot listed
    June 25, 2008Peer reviewReviewed
    Current status: Former good article nominee


    WikiProject page

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    To try to be a bit more organised, I made a subpage in the Bedfordshire WikiProject here, if anyone's interested. At the moment it's mainly just a to do list with what I had in my mind.

    I thought it's not worth starting a new WikiProject, the Bedfordshire one is pretty dead but I made a new page to keep the Luton bits separate.

    Feel free to add or change anything on there. I'd like to make Luton and related articles really good!

    - odg (talk) 12:22, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    "Large" town

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    There is a discussion at talk:Milton Keynes#"Large" town that may be of interest to editors of this article (since it also uses the phrase "large town"). --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:06, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed merge of Luton/Dunstable urban area into Luton

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    I think this article would be best moved to the Luton page and mentioned on Dunstable and Houghton Regis page as it is just a subdivision and has not many notable sources...it be best merged into either the geography page of Luton or a new tab which links the page to and from each three towns... DragonofBatley (talk) 14:47, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Discussion moved

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    This proposal is being discussed as part of a more general discussion about the principle, at Wikipedia talk: WikiProject UK geography#Debate on merging "urban area" ("built-up area") articles into the primary settlement area. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:47, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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    Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 15:54, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Pronunciation /ˈluːtən/ vs. /ˈlʌt.ən/

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    I remember having once read that Luton is not pronounced as one would expect from its written form but as if it were Lutton, thus /ˈlʌt.ən/. This was in context with an article about an episode of Space 1999 named "The rules of Luton". The name of the planet was an allusion to the town of Luton. In the article it was mentioned that, while the series was made in the Britisch ITV studios, most of the filming crew including scriptwriters and actors was American and unaware of the different pronunciation by British locals and thereby erroneously pronouncing it /ˈluːtən/. Now I am confused. 2003:CE:BF13:20E7:AD72:E45B:6AA9:B407 (talk) 13:37, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    I think your recollection is flawed. In received pronunciation, it is LOOTon. ("Loot" as in booty.) Definitely not LUTton. In local Estuary English, it is LOOʔn, where the t is swallowed. Definitely no double t sound. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 21:17, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, this is what the article says: Luton is a Bedfordshire town with an airport. Freiberger saw it on a roadsign and pronounced it "Lew-ton" instead of "Lut-on". It is very odd to British viewers. 2003:CE:BF13:20AE:90D8:A8F5:DDD7:70F2 (talk) 14:14, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    The original question was whether it should rhyme with button. No, it should not: the IPA as given is correct and matches the audio clip.
    If I understand you correctly, maybe Freiberger was trying too hard: compare US and UK pronunciations of "student". (I don't speak IPA. I had look at Help:IPA/English but it doesn't seem to give a notation for "Lew" pronunciation [as in l'you, not Lewis]. I have asked for advice and will repost here when I get it.) --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:37, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Hard to believe that anyone would even try to pronounce it as L'yuton but the IPA would be /ˈljuːtən/ . (The /j/ in IPA is like y in yacht). --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:08, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]