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26 Jul 08 - 05:56 PM (#2398464) Subject: UK and Ireland Music Help From: JedMarum 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? |
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26 Jul 08 - 06:12 PM (#2398470) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: gnu Yup. |
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26 Jul 08 - 07:18 PM (#2398512) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: Zen 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 |
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26 Jul 08 - 07:18 PM (#2398513) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: MartinRyan Well..... Yup for UK, Nope for Ireland! Regards |
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27 Jul 08 - 05:35 AM (#2398647) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: Malcolm Douglas 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. |
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29 Jul 08 - 03:17 PM (#2400550) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: JedMarum Thanks for the link. And Mersey - how do you say it? With an S or a zee? |
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29 Jul 08 - 03:19 PM (#2400553) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: GUEST Zee. Robyn |
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29 Jul 08 - 03:21 PM (#2400555) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: GUEST,Little Robyn Ooops, where's my name gone? Robyn |
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29 Jul 08 - 09:32 PM (#2400891) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: JedMarum Thank you! |
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08 Aug 08 - 02:25 PM (#2408609) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: Jim Dixon 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. |
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08 Aug 08 - 03:23 PM (#2408658) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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08 Aug 08 - 04:01 PM (#2408718) Subject: RE: UK and Ireland Music Help From: greg stephens 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!). |