Comment by notatoad
11 hours ago
your first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode".
11 hours ago
your first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode".
I think of postal code as a generic, international form of the concept, not tied to a location.
Australia and NZ have postcodes, too.
If they had made this a .co.uk rather than a .com, there would be no confusion.
The site has since changed the content from when I made the comment. It used to say zip code in the label and error.
Or the term "pub." In the US it's much more usual to say "bar." Maybe "tavern" but that sounds rather dated to my ear.
When I lived in the PNW people used the word pub more than bar.
My sense is that it is an affectation meant to indicate an aspiration to something more than a bar (and its coarse patrons).
That’s because everybody up there thinks that liking soccer makes them English.
"Bar" is certainly the catch-all term in the U.S., but "pub" is also very widely understood to refer to a specific type of bar, especially (but not limited to) bars deliberately styled as Irish or British pubs.
Along a similar note, I hate when a Bar is labelled as a "Pub" and doesn't serve food. IMO, in the US, if it's labelled a "pub" it should serve food.
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every now and then you'll find a public house or similarly named
"Pub" is a fairly common term throughout the world. But "pub that needs you" made it pretty obvious that it was about pubs in England.
Did it? I put my postcode in and got nothing. It took browsing the map to discover it had no results for Scotland at all.
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I doubt most people would bother to think about that detail.