Petty Masons, is there a special handshake for that?
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It’s not the slip that matters; it’s the hypocrisy.
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Pres. Washington felt that the title only rightly belonged with the officeholder, but what he wanted didn’t prevail
Former governors, senators, judges, retired officers, ambassadors and many more are still called by the honorifics even decades since holding the post. But it is a courtesy and not something obliged.
But even the term mister is only a courtesy.
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And he would be right.
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“If an S and an I and an O and a U
With an X at the end spell Su;
And an E and a Y and an E spell I,
Pray what is a speller to do?
Then, if also an S and an I and a G
And an HED spell side,
There’s nothing much left for a speller to do
But to go commit siouxeyesighed.”
— Charles Follen Adams
An Orthographic Lament;
(although Adams had published at least one poem playing on the pronunciation of the word Sioux, no firm evidence supports his authorship of this work.)
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