Henceforth be Earls, the first that Scotland in such an honour named!

[changeling]

The Archbishops and Bishops are called Lord Spiritual, while the other lords are known as Lords Temporal.
That just sounds so nifty. What a lovely turn of phrase!

I'm trying to work out one of my character's rank in the British Peerage system, and though I always thought I knew very little, I am coming to discover the fact that I know even less than what I thought. Damn you, Oscar Wilde, and your casual dropping of "Lord" and "Lady" onto every other character's name! I mean, what title does Lord Henry Wotton hold?


Saw Kill Bill today, and while it was violent, it was in a rather comic way. Overall a brilliant and very funny movie. I don't think the others in the cinema found it as funny as our group did, though.


I am amused by the fact that in NaNo, suddenly adverbs are your friend.


Also, on a quest to find an answer for NaNo, I found this: 10 Ways To Kill Malfoy Good And Dead. It's damn funny.

Comments

[folk.livejournal.com]

British nobility: confusing foreigners since 1066.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*snerks* Particularly those whose own country doesn't have a peerage system, and never did the reading for history she was supposed to...

[folk.livejournal.com]

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*pokes comment* How very curious...

Although a lovely sunset.

[folk.livejournal.com]

I know! If I'd known it was going to be useful, I'd have bloody paid attention!

*MURDERS LJ*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's being a bit of a shit. *kicks it while it's down*

[scottyt2.livejournal.com]

That Malfoy thing would be even funnier if the link worked for me. :)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Odd, it works fine for me...

[scottyt2.livejournal.com]

Bah. I blame you.

[melusinehr.livejournal.com]

*Hopping over from Neil Gaiman linkage*

I don't know if you actually want to spend money on research, but I recently happened across the book "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" by Daniel Pool--only read the first couple of chapters, but it looks like it has loads and loads of the kind of information you're looking for...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Aha, I saw that in the bookshop a long time ago. That sounds brilliant! Thanks!

[dark-prophet.livejournal.com]

Heh, my personal crusade is to kick the Lords Spiritual out of the House of Lords *glares at Lords Spiritual*

I have a rough idea of which title outranks another title, if that'll help? Or what titles are actually the same thing but using foreign names.