Spelling, grammar and fact checking don't really apply to somebody making a slip-up when talking about somebody who was indeed known as "Prince Andrew" for decades. There were plenty of slip-ups refering to the King as "Prince Charles" in the early part of his reign.
It took me quite a while to get accustomed to the idea that "the Queen" meant Camilla not Elizabeth II.
Yes. Some things you do/say regularly become inbuilt habits. It took me aa while to remember that "God Save The Queen" was no longer the National Anthem. Any many years ago, it took me a few weeks to remember that I no longer needed to wear a school cap.
My wife semi-humorously pretends to have still not done that.
In the 2001 French film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, there is the son of a greengrocer who is obsessed with 'Lady Di', and both he and his father call her 'Laddy Dee' as if she had been French. My wife and I promptly started saying her name that way, and we still do, not that we ever have much need to talk about her. I recall that in the immediate aftermath of her death, Radio 4 news interviewers did vox-pops around London, and a not-negligible number of those who spoke appeared to think that her name was 'Diane'. It has just struck me that this may have been because they regarded the name Diana as impossibly upper-class and they somehow mentally decided to adopt her as 'the people's princess' (yuck) by making her name more demotic. I think that is a bit fanciful, though. They might as well have called her 'Princess Sharon'.
Likewise.
Is this the first time you've ever watched television? TV presenters fumble their lines all the time - they are human, after all.
I call them 'Colemanballs' like Private Eye. DC was not responsible for 'Harry Commentator was your Carpenter', that was attributed to Frank Bough. DC did say 'the line-up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman'.
Other highly-paid professional people, such as a Prosecuting Council, are precise to the extreme. They too are human.
Counsel?
Depends what your local council are like....and how good your computer is at deciding what words to use...
I prefer to choose them myself, but that's just me, I suppose.Depends what your local council are like....and how good your computer is at deciding what words to use...
Still can't get my head around this.
Not when his wife was monarch, but he could have been King - he just would have needed all 465 persons ahead of him to have died first (he was actually in the order from The Boss downwards according to the Court Circulars)
I am quite happy about the relaxation of what has been called the 'British Shinto' (Royal-worship). It was absurdly pronounced during my youth (I am over 70).
Why? We had Lady Di and Fergie after all. You would, I expect, storm out of our house when you hear me or my wife talk about 'Kingy'. Still less the thing from the phone call.
So if I say 'His Excellency King Charles', you'll cut me dead the next time you see me?
If she doesn't like KC & the Sunshine Band she will welcome you calling her QC instead
