UK and Ireland Music Help

Subject: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: JedMarum
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 05:56 PM

I have need of help on two issues. First one is easy;

Mersey - how do you say it? Jerry and the Pacemakers pronounced a hard Z sound; so Mer-zee ... is that correct?? A song on an upcoming album uses the word, and I don;t want to sound like an idiot. ;-)

Also - the US Post Office website has a "find the zip - or postal code" feature that I use as an address verification tool. Is there such a thing for UK and Ireland addresses?

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 06:12 PM

Yup.

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: Zen
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 07:18 PM

Hi Jed,

On Mersey... yes, that's how most English would pronounce it but a Liverpudlian (to my ears would pronounce it something between Murzee and Mairzee. But I'm not a linguistics or dialect expert and stand to be corrected by a true Scouser.

Here's a useful page on Scouse with prounciation guides.

Zen

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: MartinRyan
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 07:18 PM

Well..... Yup for UK, Nope for Ireland!

Regards

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Jul 08 - 05:35 AM

Though of course Northern Ireland codes (all beginning with the Belfast prefix BT) are included in the Royal Mail database. The Republic is reportedly planning a full alphanumeric post code system similar to the UK one, but at the moment only Dublin has district codes: much the same situation as in the UK until the 1960s.

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: JedMarum
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 03:17 PM

Thanks for the link.

And Mersey - how do you say it?

With an S or a zee?

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 03:19 PM

Zee.
Robyn

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: GUEST,Little Robyn
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 03:21 PM

Ooops, where's my name gone?
Robyn

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: JedMarum
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 09:32 PM

Thank you!

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 02:25 PM

For information about postcodes all over the world, see the Universal Postal Union web site. (What? Universal? International isn't good enough?) Also see the link on that page "Addressing formats by country" and Address Doctor, which is a pretty cool program.

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 03:23 PM

Definitely never as 'sea', always as a 'z'. But it could be 'zi' or 'zee' epending where you come from. It coul also be 'Mur' if you are from elsewhere but in the 'pool you will find it more like, but not quite, like 'meer'. Hard to explain until you hear it!

Gud luck, are kid...

:D

Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 04:01 PM

Difficult, trying phonetic writing isn't it? I sse two attempts at the local pronunciation in this thread, meer and mair. Neither of those quite seems to get it, somewhere in between. But a simple Mer is fine for outsiders(such as me!).