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A Trap for the Unwary

6 August, 2014
Posted in: Reading etc.

My (Irish) friend was giving expert evidence to a House of Lords committee recently. She decided that they were all lords and could be addressed as such, so, following one man’s intervention, she said as “Lord X said…”. The clerk of the committee passed her a note. On it was written “viscount”.

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  1. Dot says

    9 August, 2014 at 18:23

    I don’t actually see the problem here. In my teens I read a lot of Georgette Heyer so I bought a book about titles and forms of address. I’m pretty sure it said viscounts can be addressed as Lord. I do know dukes can’t. Also, you have to be careful to combine it with the right part of their name. So, as far as I remember Simon Bloggs, Viscount Salisbury, would be Lord Salisbury but not Lord Bloggs or Lord Simon.

  2. Dot says

    9 August, 2014 at 18:23

    However, it has been many years and I can’t say I’ve had much opportunity to reinforce what I learnt with use…

  3. sibling says

    3 September, 2014 at 13:41

    Nearly a month without a post. What are your loyal readers supposed to do?

  4. belgianwaffle says

    3 September, 2014 at 16:30

    I know almost all of Georgette Heyer’s regency novels off by heart and it has done me no good whatsoever, I seem to have a mental block about English titles or maybe they are deliberately confusing to deter the faint hearted.

  5. belgianwaffle says

    3 September, 2014 at 16:31

    Sibling, I’m touched that you care. Your wish is my command. Behold me springing into action.

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