Herr Doctor Professor, etc.

[Wilson Gray]

A book published in celebration of the silver anniversary of the
Archbishop of Cologne addressed him as

Sehr hochgeehrte Herr Doktor Doktor Doktor Erzbischof ... He had a DD,
a ThD, and a PhD.

-Wilson Gray

On May 16, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Paul Frank wrote:

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>> The Germans seem to solve the problem byp using all three together.
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> Yes. In Frankfurt, some people used to say Herr Professor Doktor
> Doktor Frank to my dad, because he
> had two Ph.D.s. Pretty silly.
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> Paul
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