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@obi_jon | 27 June 20 | |
Genuine question. If the city is called Liverpool(pronounced: Liv - er - pool), then why is the building called the Liver(pronounced Lie - ver) building? Or should the city's name really be pronounced as Lie - ver - pool?
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@3mel | 27 June 20 | |
it's an insurance company name isn't it, now LV in ads ?
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@bambi60 | 27 June 20 | |
Yep , back in the days it was Insurance ...I wasn't aware of the everton connection tbh ...as I've not lived there for yrs ...
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@bambi60 | 27 June 20 | |
@ obi_jon - 27.06.20 - 02:42pm Genuine question. If the city is called Liverpool(pronounced: Liv - er - pool), then why is the building called the Liver(pronounced Lie - ver) building? Or should the city's name really be pronounced as Lie - ver - pool? The building was built in the early 1900s by the insurance group (who had 6000 employees !) |
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@alanball | 27 June 20 | |
Now it's Everton's HQ and the Reds don't like it
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@bambi60 | 27 June 20 | |
That dancing man looks like John Peel
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@obi_jon | 27 June 20 | |
@ bambi60 - 27.06.20 - 03:09pm That dancing man looks like John Peel Looks more like Charlie Bronson, the convict, not the actor. |
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@4juice | 27 June 20 | |
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@ dodgey - 27.06.20 - 01:09pm Liverpool fans have once again proved they are the scu m of the Premier league, and they wonder why they get so much sh*t off other fans. +1 |
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@obi_jon | 27 June 20 | |
@ bambi60 - 27.06.20 - 03:00pm The building was built in the early 1900s by the insurance group (who had 6000 employees !) So it's the city that is being pronounced wrongly? If the insurance company and the city both take their names from the mythical Liver(Lie - ver) birds, then why is the city pronounced Liv - er - pool and not Lie - ver - pool? |
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@alanball | 27 June 20 | |
The name comes from the Old English lifer, meaning thick or muddy water, and pl, meaning a pool or creek, and is first recorded around 1190 as Liuerpul. According to the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, The original reference was to a pool or tidal creek now filled up into which two streams drained. The place appearing as Leyrpole, in a legal record of 1418, may also refer to Liverpool. Other origins of the name have been suggested, including elverpool, a reference to the large number of eels in the Mersey while another such suggestion is derivation from Welsh llyvr pwl, apparently meaning expanse or confluence at the pool. The adjective Liverpudlian is first recorded in 1833.
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