Voltaire & Baudouin I

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:
> Just FYI, there's no such thing as the King of Belgium. He is King of the
> Belgians.
> DAD
>

David! That's just plain nitpicking! Is the king of the Belgians not
also the king of Belgium, in some non-empty sense, regardless of the
exact manner in which he is to be titled in English?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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