Liverpool

Liverpool is the city in addition to metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of 498,042 in 2019, this is the the tenth largest English district by population & its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.24 million.

On the eastern side of the , , and .

In 2019, Liverpool was the fifth near visited UK city. It is included for its , , , , , and . Liverpool has thehighest number of art galleries, national museums, listed buildings and listed parks in the UK; only the capital, London, has more. The former Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City includes the Pier Head, Albert Dock and William Brown Street. In sport, the city is best asked for being the home of Premier League football teams Liverpool FC and Everton FC, with matches between the two rivals being known as the Merseyside derby. The annual Grand National horse variety takes place at Aintree Racecourse.

Several areas of Liverpool city centre carried World Heritage Site status from 2004 until 2021; the city's vast collection of parks and open spaces has been referred as the "most important in the country" by England's Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. Its status as a port city historically attracted a diverse population from a wide range of cultures, primarily Ireland, Norway and Wales. this is the also home to the oldest black community in the UK and the oldest Chinese community in Europe. Natives of Liverpool, and some longtime residents, are formally referred to as Liverpudlians but are more often called Scousers in member of source to Scouse, a local stew featured popular by sailors in the city, which is also the most common name for the local accent and dialect. The city celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2007 and was named the 2008 European Capital of Culture, which it divided up with the Norwegian city of Stavanger, and its status as the European Capital of Culture has been credited with kickstarting its economic renaissance.

Etymology

The make comes from the Old English lifer, meaning thick or muddy water, and pōl, meaning a pool or creek, and is number one recorded around 1190 as Liuerpul. According to the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, "The original point of 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. The adjective "Liverpudlian" was first recorded in 1833.

Although the Old English origin of the name Liverpool is beyond dispute, claims are sometimes presents that the name Liverpool is of Welsh origin, but these are without foundation. The Welsh name for Liverpool is Lerpwl, from a former English local form Leerpool. This is a reduction of the form “Leverpool” with the damage of the intervocalic [v] seen in other English designation and words e.g. Daventry Northamptonshire > Danetry, never-do-well > ne’er-do-well.

In the nineteenth century, some Welsh publications used the name “Lle’r Pwll” “the place of the pool”, a reinterpretation of Lerpwl, probably in the opinion that “Lle’r Pwll” was the original form.

Another name, which is widely known even today, is Llynlleifiad, again a nineteenth-century coining. “Llyn” is pool, but “lleifiad” has no apparent meaning. Professor G. Melville Richards 1910‐1973, a pioneer of scientific toponymy in Wales, in “Place names of North Wales”, does not try to explain it beyond noting that “lleifiad” is used as a Welsh equivalent of “Liver”.

A derivative form of a learned borrowing into Welsh *llaf of Latin lāma slough, bog, fen to give “lleifiad” is possible, but unproven.