Talk:Leicestershire

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HI, it's not easy for me to see where the leicestershire area is in relation to, say, derby or coventry. Of course this goes for much of wiki geography. This could be easily changed by improving the general map standard alone which is, to put it mildly, P@!s poor. Otherwise great, keep the faith, sf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.192.112.144 (talk) 00:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

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Contents 1 County hall 2 IPA Pronunciation 3 GCSE Results 4 Districts map

[edit] County hall

I've spectacularly failed to find out where (and even if there was one) County Hall was prior to the one at Glenfield. I can't think of any obvious buildings - the best I can come up with in the Times archive is the Conway Buildings, which are given as an address for the County Treasurer (this now apparently used by the City Council) Morwen - Talk 19:51, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

According to a legal notice they inserted in the London Gazette on September 9, 1966 their adress was County Buildings, Grey Friars, Leicester

Lozleader 21:29, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

That corresponds: Conway Buildings are at Greyfriars, also. Morwen - Talk 22:19, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IPA Pronunciation

The current IPA pronunciation of ˈlɛstəʃə seems incorrect ('lesta-sha'). Locally it is pronounced 'lesta-sheer', which I think should be IPA: 'lɛstəʃɪər. Can anyone who knows more than me about IPA (shouldn't be difficult) confirm this? Thanks. --Michig 14:19, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Both British RP and the English Midlands accent are non-rhotic, ie they don't add an extra "r" sound at the end of syllables (from their viewpoint of course). So ˈlɛstəʃə ('lesta-sha') or ˈlɛstəʃɪə ('lesta-shia') are both correct. LDHan 23:11, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GCSE Results

Can it be clarified which year are these relating to, and where are they sourced from?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.50.184.130 (talk • contribs).

I have added a tag to this effect. If no references are provided, the information can be deleted.--Michig 12:37, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The figures come from the DCSF website. The DCSF provides results by district for any 5 GCSEs passed A-C, which I think is unreliable and optimistic, so I compiled a table of results using the DCSF results for 5 GCSEs including English and Maths. The table you see on the Leicestershire page is more truthful than the DCSF's set of tables. I'm doing you a favour, but sometimes the truth hurts. DinosaursLoveExistence 19:18, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

If you have a reliable source for the figures, please add it to the section as a reference. Thanks.--Michig 19:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Districts map

The Oadby and Wigston and Harborough districts are labelled the wrong way round on the the map of districts. --Ebz 15:05, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I have corrected this - thanks for pointing it out.--Michig 15:13, 19 June 2007 (UTC)