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  2. Don (honorific) - Wikipedia

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    Historically, don was used to address members of the nobility, e.g. hidalgos, as well as members of the secular clergy.The treatment gradually came to be reserved for persons of the blood royal, e.g. Don John of Austria, and those of such acknowledged high or ancient aristocratic birth as to be noble de Juro e Herdade, that is, "by right and heredity" rather than by the king's grace.

  3. Upside-down question and exclamation marks - Wikipedia

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    Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"

  4. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    This was a historical and contemporary survey of the uses of pronouns of address, seen as semantic markers of social relationships between individuals. The study considered mainly French, Italian, Spanish and German. The paper was highly influential [2] and, with few exceptions, the terms T and V have been used in subsequent studies.

  5. Honorific - Wikipedia

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    The most common honorifics in modern English are usually placed immediately before a person's name. Honorifics used (both as style and as form of address) include, in the case of a man, "Mr." (irrespective of marital status), and, in the case of a woman, previously either of two depending on marital status: "Miss" if unmarried and "Mrs." if married, widowed, or divorced; more recently, a third ...

  6. Forms of address in Spain - Wikipedia

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    Position On envelopes Salutation in letter Oral address Duke: The Most Ext The Duke of Z (Excmo.Sr. Duque de Z) e.g., The Most Ext The Duke of Medina Sidonia Excelentísimo Señor

  7. Style (form of address) - Wikipedia

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    In Senate and congressional inquiries, impeachment procedures, and electoral canvasses, senators, representatives, and officials of the Commission on Elections when they convene as provincial and national boards of canvassers, are mostly addressed as Your Honor, because it was unfortunately rendered from "the Spanish term for addressing ...

  8. Honorifics (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. . Distinct from honorific titles, linguistic honorifics convey formality FORM, social distance, politeness POL, humility HBL, deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form such as an affix, clitic, grammatical ...

  9. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure). a capite ad calcem: from head to heel: i.e., "from top to bottom", "all the way through", or "from head to toe". See also a pedibus usque ad caput. a contrario: from the opposite