From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
Subject: Re: Re: First report on Coní
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Joe wrote:
>
> > On the other hand,Tony Blair is very definitely Mr. Blair.(Prime
Minister
> > Blair just sounds stupid). Same with all MPs, etc.
>
> Hm, here we call him 'British Prime Minister Tony Blair' (with the British
> Prime Minister bit being a description, not a title), and afterwards he
> becomes 'Blair'. Howard would generally be 'John Howard' on the first
> reference and 'Howard' afterwards (Howard being our own Prime Minister).
Here in America they would be "British Prime Minister Tony Blair" and such
on the first mention, and "Prime Minister Blair" etc. on subsequent
mentions.
> BTW... do other people pronounce Prime Minister as one word (e.g.
> /prai"mIn@st@/ rather than /praim mIn@st@/), or is that just an
> Australianism?
We don't use the term often enough to collapse it down, so here it's
pronounced /praim mInIstr/.