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RE: Sir Stirling Moss (terms of address - limited LBC)

To: "Triumph List" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: RE: Sir Stirling Moss (terms of address - limited LBC)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:47:31 -0800
> I noted in one
> of the digests that Randall referred to the great man as *Sir Moss.* Its far
> safer and more socially acceptable to address him as Sir Stirling or when
> speaking of him, to say Sir Stirling Moss.

I appreciate the protocol lesson, John, but I remain stupidly confused.  Are you
saying that the rules for usage of the honorific "Sir" depend on whether the
person in question had been knighted or not ?

Or is "Sir" simply not used as a general honorific in the UK ?  Here in the
backward colonies, it's appropriate to address any gentleman as Sir unless he is
a great deal younger than you, in which case it's likely to be taken as an
insult (although a relatively mild one).

> Sir is probably easier all round, a lot easier to remember and almost
> goof-proof.

As long as we remember to apply it only to surname or full name, not family name
?

Randall




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