Re: CHAT: Mr. President (was: Old Norse)

Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >Padraic Brown wrote:
> >
> >> Slick Willie can rightly be addressed as "your excellency" [...]
> >
> >Absolutely not!
>
> Sorry ... "His Excelency". As in
>
> "Willow-Dale, Doniphan Co. Kansas May 6th, 1861
>
> His Excelency
> The President of the U. S. of N. America
> Mr. Abraham Lincoln
> The addressed greeting:
>
> Dear and noble Sir! ... etc."
>
> or
>
> "SEGRETERIA DI STATO
>    diSVA SANTITA
>    N. 4988/44
>
> The Sceretariat of State of His Holiness respectfully requests His
> Excellency Mr. Myron Taylor to be so kind as to communicate to His
> Excellency Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United
> States of America, the enclosed Message from His Holiness Pope Pius
> XII ... etc."
Well, these must belong to some timeline other than our own, is all I can say.

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