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  2. Forms of address in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Position On envelopes Salutation in letter Oral address King: HM The King: Your Majesty: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Sir" (or the archaic "Sire") Queen: HM The Queen: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Ma'am"

  3. English honorifics - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.

  4. Salutation - Wikipedia

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    A salutation is a greeting used in a letter or other communication. Salutations can be formal or informal. The most common form of salutation in an English letter includes the recipient's given name or title. For each style of salutation there is an accompanying style of complimentary close, known as valediction. Examples of non-written ...

  5. List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    Post-nominal letters are used in the United Kingdom after a person's name in order to indicate their positions, qualifications, memberships, or other status. There are various established orders for giving these, e.g. from the Ministry of Justice, Debrett's, and A & C Black's Titles and Forms of Address, which are generally in close agreement.

  6. Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The son of the current Duke of Northumberland has the courtesy title of Earl Percy, and is addressed and referred to as "Lord Percy".. If a peer of one of the top three ranks of the peerage (a duke, a marquess or an earl) has more than one title, his eldest son – himself not a peer – may use one of his father's lesser titles "by courtesy".

  7. Epistle to Philemon - Wikipedia

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    Apphia in the salutation is probably Philemon's wife. [11] Her name (Greek: Ἀπφία) is possibly of Phrygian or Greek origin. [20] Some have speculated that Archippus (Greek: Ἀρχιππος, romanized: Archippos), described by Paul as a "fellow soldier", is the son of Philemon and Apphia. [11]

  8. John Thomas and Lady Jane - Wikipedia

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    The novel is the second, less widely known, version [1] of a story that was later told in the more famous, once-controversial, third version Lady Chatterley's Lover, published in 1928. John Thomas [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Lady Jane [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] are the pet names [ 7 ] for the genitalia of the protagonists.

  9. Australian honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Salutation in letter Oral address King: HM The King "Your Majesty" "Your Majesty", and thereafter as "Sir" Queen: HM The Queen "Your Majesty" "Your Majesty", and thereafter as "Ma'am" Governor-General [1] His/Her Excellency the Honourable, Governor-General e.g. His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley, Governor-General of the ...