メトロ・ランド
「Metroland」は現在一般的に使用されているが、「ブランド」とハイフネーションは「Metro-land」または「METRO-LAND」だった。Evelyn Waugh、John BetjemanそしてJulian Barnes全員はハイフンを付けて表記していた(1973年のBBCのBetjemanのドキュメンタリーで挿入された)。
↑ In 1962 en:Philip Goodhart, MP for en:Beckenham, wrote of the parliamentary by-election of that year in the Kent suburb of en:Orpington, at which a Conservative majority of over 14,000 was turned into a Liberal victory, that "now the extent and growth of this social mobility can be seen for the first time"
↑ In Tropic of Ruislip, it was possible to hear the rattle of the Metropolitan from Plummers Park. However, although Plummers Park was placed close to Watford "in the latitude of en:Ruislip", it was said to be thirty miles from Central London, whereas Metro-land (1932 edition) gave the distance from Ruislip to Baker Street as 131⁄4 miles.