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Originally Posted by issybird
The mousy spinster called Harriet “Lady Peter” in Busman’s Honeymoon. I’ve not seen Lady Harriet, but I’ve not read any of the non-DLS follow-ons. Someone, a Yank of course, called Peter “Lord Wimsey” in an earlier book, and got the smackdown.
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Indeed she did. Most folks don't remember that. They do, I think, remember the wine. What was that? Dandelion? Something else? Blackberry? Some godawful concoction, that I do recall.
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And yes, when I come across it in a book, fiction or non-, they pretty much lose me.
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If it's in first-person, they don't lose me unless the person in question--the narrator--is meant to know what's what. If it's some random American, loose in London and they don't get it right, I assume it's deliberate.
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As for Diana, I came around on that one; she was that exception that proved the rule. Everyone used Princess Diana and you’d have come off as having a colossal stick up your arse if you’d insisted on the correct form.
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Yabbut, we're not talking about me or you--we're discussing the BBC, et al. One might have thought that they might make the effort to get it right. And bygod, they STILL do it. Read anything today about any member of the Royals (the UK royals, I mean), and it's Prince Harry--although, interestingly, you see a lot of Meghan whatever, Duchess of Sussex. Weird. (I tend to think that the address for Harry and his brother is vestigial, sort of?)
So, presumably, if you're beloved, they butcher your proper address, but they don't, if they can't abide you? LOL.
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So it goes. I can’t bring myself to care about sexism in an archaic and entitled (in every sense) system. A la lanterne with the lot of them. But to the extent the titles still exist, I want them used correctly, dammit!
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Oh, sure, for historical, no argument. My ponderment is, why is it the way it is today? Why isn't Mr. Whatever Lord Susan? (Sorry, can't resist, really....)
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