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Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Thu Sep 17 21:33:24 UTC 2009


Sorry about that! (Might I have assumed that a message labeled "Off-list" would remain unread by everyone--including Wilson, for whom it was intended?)

Charlie



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>Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:15:43 -0400
>From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>)
>Subject: Re: Off-list
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>off-list?
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>    VS-)
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>Charles Doyle wrote:
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>> First, was Dulles a St. Louis cardinal?
>>
>> Second, was he the son of the notorious Alan Dulles--who was, as I recall, brother to the notorious John Foster?
>>
>> Back in the 1960s or so, a new consolidated school was built in Eagle Lake, TX, (in the county where I grew up).  They named it John Foster Dulles High School.  I wonder if they've ever wished they could change the name.  Probably not.
>>
>> Best wishes.
>>
>> Charlie
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>>> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:37:18 -0400
>>> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>)
>>> Subject: Re: "Lord Alfred" or "Alfred, Lord"?
>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>>> Subject:      Re: "Lord Alfred" or "Alfred, Lord"?
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>>> In addition to his renown in the field of theology and his being one of the
>>> few Jesuits ever to be elevated to the cardinalate in the history of the
>>> Catholic Church, Avery,Cardinal Dulles is known for being the nephew of the
>>> late John, Foster Dulles. ;-)
>>> -Wilson
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote=
>>> :
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>>>> A few years ago, my wife and I attended a seminar at Luther Seminary
>>>> in St. Paul, MN, on the Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration on the
>>>> Doctrine of Justification.  One of the speakers was Avery Cardinal
>>>> Dulles, who was introduced and referred to that way by both Lutheran
>>>> and Catholic participants.  The form isn't completely gone.
>>>>
>>>> Herb
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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>>>>> Well, they've done away with {Forename,] Cardinal [Surname]! What did y=
>>>>>
>>> ou
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>>>>> expect?! Expect "Lord George G. Byron" any day, now.
>>>>> -Wilson
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter
>>>>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>>> Subject:      "Lord Alfred" or "Alfred, Lord"?
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>>> =3D
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>>>>>> Smiling my sardonic "what-did-you-expect?" smile, I used to correct
>>>>>> students
>>>>>> who infallibly referred to "Lord Alfred Tennyson."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd still do it, although these days I can't muster even a sardonic
>>>>>>
>>>> smile=3D
>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>>> Google shows that "Alfred, Lord Tennyson,"
>>>>>> outnumbers the other chap by nearly ten to one, at least in raw hits.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But "Lord Alfred" is on the rise:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2009 Samantha Henig "Periscope" in _Newsweek_ (Jan. 12): Lord Alfred
>>>>>> Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
>>>>>> JL
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>>>>>> Platypus"
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>>>>> --=3D20
>>>>> -Wilson
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>>>>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
>>>>>
>>>> com=3D
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>>>>> e
>>>>> from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>>>> =3D96Mark Twain
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>>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to com=
>>> e
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>> >from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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