Incredibly, Doug, I have no reason to think that the dropdown list of titles
was anything other than Business As Usual for the company. I laugh
everytime I read this list-----and I eliminated more than half the titles
before typing this!
Judy, untitled
2008/7/9 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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
>>
>>
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