Re: CHAT: Mr. President (was: Old Norse)
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 19, 2000, 18:01 |
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, John Cowan wrote:
>Padraic Brown wrote:
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>> Slick Willie can rightly be addressed as "your excellency" [...]
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>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."
Padraic.