Falling out over the silliest things
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2004-08-21 07:35:42 - Graham EllisIf you do a Google search for "Registry Office" then all the results you get contain the words "Register Office". That's because the office at which births, marriages and deaths in the UK are recorded are know as Register Offices, and the term "Registry office" is an oft-misused term. Even people who should know better get it wrong.
I'm not a great one to say "I'm certain of this" without checking my sources. My mother worked in a Register Office for a while and once gently corrected me on this naming, but even so I did a Google search to check my facts when I saw a heated exchange on the subject online the other day. They say the best form of defence is attack, and so it proved in this case with the incorrect (but politically stronger) party getting the weaker but correct party banned. Bad enough, but Frankly it was the worse to see winner's hubby jumping into the ring and gloating over the departure with the words "and most of all incorrect". Oops ;-)
Dear Reader, if I post something here that you feel is incorrect, please question it. I like to get my facts right, and I like to learn. There may be occasions that we cannot agree, but I feel richer for the views of others and I can agree to disagree with most people at the end of a discussion. Life's a rich tapestry; the dogmatic are lesser people with their single colour cloth.