Forms of address (Was: Re: "Leader DeLay"???)

[Duane Campbell]

----- Original Message -----

>  The unfamiliar usage I'm talking
> about was among "The Administration."  They addressed each other by title
> alone, e.g.,
>
> "What do you think, Dean?"
> "I dunno, Chancellor, but I'll check it out."


Apropos  nothing ...

Forty some years ago I was in Army G-5 in Germany.   G-5 is the section that
does civil government, and since we hadn't done that in Germany for a decade
or two, it was a pretty easy job. One of the occasional chores we had was
assembling guest lists and sending out invitations for the CG's formal
affairs. One local dignitary, a man of considerable accomplishment, was
Professor Doktor Doktor General Friedrick August Freiherr von der Heydt.  A
total of five titles that roll gently off the tongue.. (Yes, two Doktors,
both listed.)  I remember it forty years later because if we left one of
them out we would get a call from a lackey informing us of our failing and
requesting that a properly addressed invitation be sent. I occasionally
wondered what his wife, the lovely Freifrau von der Heydt, called him.

Dean and Chancellor are pretty small beer. Bier.

D