Registry offices don’t exist

[clapperboard]

Aibu To wonder why everybody calls Register offices Registry offices.

There’s no such thing as a registry office yet it’s the phrase almost everyone uses

Why?

You're right. The correct term is Register Office.

It's probably people mishearing the word though.

Yep, your'e being an arse! Does it actually matter?

Your weird usage of capital letters annoys me a darn sight more.

Pedants' Corner is that way --->

We call it the Registrars. Where do you stand on that?

I've wondered that myself Op
Years ago we spent ages trying to find the phone number of our local registry office. In the phone book as it was before smart phones.
We gave up in the end and decided to go into the building ourselves. On the way we passed the sign and suddenly realised where we had gone wrong. Could have saved the bus fares if we'd realised .

@AmIChangingagain yup Registrars for me too 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The registrar is the person inside so 'the registrar's' is fine, like going to the butchers or bakers.

Also if you google, not only does the GOV web result have (registry office) in brackets, but the link immediately below the GOV is 'registryofficesnearme'

So I reckon registry, registrar's and register are all correct one way or another.

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I think they were always called Registry Offices until about 1990 when it was suddenly decided they were actually Register Offices (which actually sounds weird to me). So the battle was lost then I think because everyone of my generation knew them as Registry Offices and passed that down to the next generation.

You are right, it's Register Office or the Registrar.

This came up a few years back, well quite a lot of years as not long after I got married and a couple of people disagreed.

I looked it up and found that, at the time of looking, some of the offices were listed as Registary/Registry Offices and some as Register Offices. looking again, many years later, it seems that they are now all (correctly) listed although I haven't checked all of them.

Not to throw the cat among the pigeons but my local one is listed on the council website as “Registration office” so not any of the terms already listed......apparently I have nothing better to do than google this

True...annoys me too!

Too much time on your hands really

Oh I thought this was about the fact that Register Offices don't exist any more.

Well, not where my dad lived.

I had to queue in the Library with the people taking books out, to register his death.

I've heard that knitting makes a great hobby OP.

Registry Office was the original name when they were first set up, I believe.

And chutney making....look at all those apple trees!

Partly, as others have said, because they were called Registry Offices. So it hasn’t come from nowhere.

But I also think the reason the old name has had longevity, is that it sounds more correct.
Think about places where we go to do or buy things: library, bakery, monastery, abbey, pharmacy, chandlery, foundry... (admittedly the latter too aren’t so common now!)
Lots of -y and -ry endings.

Of course there are loads of others - church, school, market... but those don’t have consistent endings.

I personally that Registry sounds more correct than Register.