The word 'Mercury' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to the smallest planet in the solar system, a silver-white, toxic metallic element with the symbol Hg, or the Roman god of commerce and messenger of the gods. Example: "Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and its surface is covered in craters and ridges."
Let us not concern ourselves with the doubting voices that find the idea of Davidson doing coke at Stringfellows with Freddie Mercury in the 90s implausible, especially given that Mercury died in 1991.
Of all the major cultural awards handed out each year, it is the Mercury Prize that frequently meets with the biggest jeer from its intended public.
In order to save Annalise he must face Mercury, one of the strongest Black witches of all time (after Nathan's father of course).
Its parent album Overgrown won the Mercury prize for album of the year in the UK, and it was the Guardian's fifth-favourite of the year.
His chart-topping soundtrack to the film Ill Manors leads the nominations for the 2012 Mercury prize, standing out among the indie bands and singer-songwriters dominating this year's shortlist.
Harvey was directly affected by 9/11, unable to collect her first Mercury award in 2001 – for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea – as she was stuck in a Washington DC hotel watching the smoke rise from the Pentagon.
Kate Hutchinson East India Youth: giving a face, and a flowery shirt, to electronic music The Mercury music prize promotes "the best" of British music.
But the weather will dramatically improve in the second half of the week and the mercury is predicted to rise to 28C (82F) in the south on Friday and Saturday as warm air from the continent drifts over Britain.
The record-setting temperatures (it had never been warmer in Colorado) that fueled those blazes drifted east across the continent as the week wore on: across the Plains, there were places where the mercury reached levels it hadn't touched even in the Dust Bowl years, America's previous all-time highs.
If anyone wants to gauge the atmosphere between the two communities in the north of Ireland, despite relative peace and power sharing, they should come to Castlederg and check the social mercury levels.
The band in question is Manchester's Everything Everything, Ivor Novello and Mercury Prize nominees.
