The records of civil registration in England & Wales which commenced on 1 July 1837, relate to the birth, marriage and death of an individual. In Scotland records began in 1855 and in Ireland in 1864 (n.b. Irish non-Catholic marriages were recorded from 1845).
With the shift lever in D (Drive), the tap shift controls will activate a temporary tap manual shift mode, allowing the transmission to be manually shifted. Automatic shifts return after no manual shifts have been done for seven to 10 second.
A tap involves a rapid backwards and forwards movement of the tongue tip. The sound referred to here is the alveolar tap [É¾], not the flap [É½], and hence tapping is the correct term from a phonetic point of view (see also Flap consonant).