a Member of Parliament is "the Honourable Member for Bogarse South". A Privy Councillor is "The Right Honourable". Debrett's would encourage you to refer to a younger child of a hereditary peer as "the Honourable" as a courtesy title in the absence of any other title, but this practice is on the way out. "Honorable" spelled the American way, your guess is as good as mine.
dd -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine, James Sent: 23 July 2004 02:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: C.I.A. Plays It Safe by Accentuating the Negative Michael Pollak writes: [An obvious point but a good one to keep in mind: there are always at least two very strong incentives toward threat assessment inflation: CYA and the drive for institutional expansion] speaking of "threat assessment inflation," there was an ad by the Committee on the Present Danger in the NY TIMES yesterday. That kind of inflation is their business. some of them were called "honorable" as their titles. What makes someone officially "honorable"? jim devine
