Dropped, as in your first missive on this, Judy, it was a found snap I
think...
not to mention utterly mad....
Doug
On 9-Jul-08, at 3:42 AM, Judy Prince wrote:
> Registering online to buy some shirts from Charles Tyrwhitt (Jermyn
> Street,
> London) a couple nights ago, I came across a dropdown menu of titles
> to
> select for myself that began with the usual "Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Dr",
> and
> then bloomed to "Admiral, Air Commodore, Baron, Baroness, Bishop",
> after
> which it became positively stern and alternately noble: "Brigadier,
> Canon,
> Captain, Colonel, Commander, Count, Countess, Dame, Deputy, Duke of,
> Earl,
> Group Captain, HRH, His Excellency, Judge, Lady, Marchioness, The
> Marchioness of, The Marquess of, Rear Admiral, Sergeant, Squadron
> Leader,
> Vice Admiral, Viscount, Viscountess, Wing Commander".
> I was tempted by "HRH", but chose "Ms". <sigh>
>
> Judy
> Wing Commander
>
Douglas Barbour
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