On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 20:03 -0400, Sean Hunt wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2014 5:19 PM, "Jonathan Rouillard" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Henri Bouchard > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > By the way, what does "H" stand for in "H. Henri"? > > > > > > -Henri > > > > It stands for Honorable, I think - presumably, you hold an office that > > gives you that title. > > > > ~ Agua Rojo > > > > It used to be that the rules required addressing office-holders as > 'Honourable', often abbreviated to H. That's no longer the case, but > it has stuck around when referring to officeholders in their official > capacities. > > Or because we can. > > -R. H. scshunt
You can also correctly refer to me as "H. ais523" regardless of whether I hold an office or not, because I have "H." as a Patent Title. -- ais523
