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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
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"  |
Getting titles wrong might be my peeviest pet peeve of them all. The lack of understanding, the lack of research, the writing about something of which the author knows nothing, the willingness to make it up.... And most shocking of all, as here, are people who should have known better as well as books put out by major publishers which obviously had only cursory editing at best. Oh, for the days of Waugh and Wodehouse and Anthony Powell!