It's a fkn REGISTER OFFICE

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You illiterate morons

THANKYOU

Actually sorry… two different council websites (we have the county one and a borough one)

The main one is the General Register Office. It keeps the register of all births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships, stillbirths and adoptions in England and Wales.

Then there are the local ones. Gov.uk enables you to find any if them here.

"Find a register office

You can use a register office to:

• register a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership
• find records of a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership (if it was registered at that register office)
• order copies of certificates

https://www.gov.uk/register-offices

You're wrong.

In the UK, both terms are correct and refer to the same place. "Register office" is the formal, legal term used by the government, while "registry office" is the name widely used by the public.

Key Details

Official Use: The government and local councils officially designate them as "Register Offices" (or Registration Offices).

Public Use: You will frequently see and hear people (and the media) use "Registry Office". Dictionaries recognise both as valid.

It's Registry Office in Ireland

Registry office

Just googled our local one and it is officially xxx registration office.

Imagine calling people 'illiterate morons' when you've got it wrong yourself! LMFAO! 😂

#awkward

It might be an alternative, which is probably why it appears in that dictionary, but that does not mean it is correct in the UK.

The register is the set of actual records and the register office is the place where they are kept. One could call the building the 'registry', but not the 'registry office'.

Registry office is in common usage in the USA, but you know what they're like.

🙂

From my local council's page:

The Marriage Act 1994 permits civil marriages to take place at locations other than registration offices as long as they have been authorised by your local councils.

Fkn muppet.

It IS an acceptable alternative in the UK.

The OP is wrong, and so are you.

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I did google my local office. It’s official title is Register Office, but on their own website they refer to themselves as both the Registry Office and Registrar’s Office.

Register Office sounds American.

"Hey honey, Ah'm, gonna mosey on down to the Register Office and register mah noo machine gun."

"You don' heff to do that Elmer, Bubba down the licker store says a licence ain't needed no more jess' fer simple machine guns."

@OutOfApricots My borough council uses the term ‘Registry Office’ on its own website. Should I let them know they’re wrong?

I live in the US. They do not have registry offices, that is a British government office. They seem to record births, deaths, and marriages in different departments in most cities/counties. In places like universities they use registration or registrar, not register or registry. I’ve never seen the specific term “registry office” anywhere here.

Awww back in the olden days when all round here were fields we would have just typed 4 to the OP.

<misty watercoloured memmmmmmries, of the way we were>

@Error404FucksNotFound that is a bloody brilliant username 👏😍

Well I wouldn’t be waving the Cambridge dictionary around in Oxford but here is what Oxford County Council calls it.

I think you’re going to have to visit every council in the country @familyiconsto check what word they are using and put them right.

This is Pedants' corner, @Error404FucksNotFound .