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Loading... Titles and Forms of Address: A Guide to Their Correct Useby A&C Black
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. How to address mainly British and Commonwealth people of distinction (or at any rate of title) from Royalty downwards, in speech and writing, with useful tables of abbreviations and of pronunciation of surnames. Some of the examples are a trifle laconic but on the whole the book is helpful and occasionally amusing. The difficulty might come not when reading it but when, overawed by the occasion, one attempted to put its precepts into practice. Georgette Heyer and PG Wodehouse include incidental instruction on the same subject but in a lighter-hearted and less didactic fashion ( ) no reviews | add a review
A guide to correct forms of address in speech and correspondence. It covers both formal and social occasions, and includes the forms of address for bishops, peers, privy counsellors, ambassadors, JPs and mayors. Where honours, decorations and degrees appear after the name as letters, an explanation and the correct sequence is given. This edition is revised and updated to cover changing conventions. Now in its 23rd edition, this book has been in constant demand for over 90 years. No library descriptions found. |
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