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Old 07-14-2023, 04:39 AM   #1547
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
The novel's set in 1940 and the author was born in 1952 and has a Ph.D. in history. No excuse.

I know better and I'm younger and Yank.

I thought of this rant just now, reading a book set in the Regency, by a UK-born and raised author with an MA in History. She keeps refering to a character about to receive a baronetcy as "being ennobled" and that character addressed the Prince Regent as "Your Majesty"
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