Get your British Titles Correct!

A useful tutorial. Thanks for sharing!

I couldn't get past the opening phrase "I am fed up of seeing ...".

Citizengrey, why's that? As I understand it, that's a British phrasing.

There are so many sources on the Internet for the correct usage of British titles. I don't understand how authors keep getting it wrong.

Also: I was a huge fan of Downton Abbey and when they used to do promotion for it, they would refer to Cora as "Lady Cora" sometimes. She's not Lady Cora; she's Lady Grantham!

Fantastic resource - now... any idea where I can find one on 12th century Irish nobility?

'Hizzoner'

angeliz2k said:

Citizengrey, why's that? As I understand it, that's a British phrasing.

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Shudder.

I have had enough of, a suffiency of, an abundance of, or even a slight surfeit of but I am fed up with; literally stuffed with it.

No idea where it's come from, probably the same stable as "can I get a cappuccino" instead of "may I have a cappuccino" but I suppose all will be absorbed into acceptable usage at some point...

Again, Bacchus, I believe "bored of" is a dialectical difference, just like the British say "rubbish" and I say "trash", and it's not new. (And there's nothing wrong with more modern phrasing. That's how language works: it changes.)

angeliz2k said:

That's how language works: it changes.

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Indeed it does! that's kinda (you see what I did there) what I meant by "all will be absorbed into acceptable usage ".

My kid's kids will think my usage "quaint", Chaucer wouldn't understand I word I say (c: