Earls and Counts
Posted by Constanza on March 03, 1998 at 13:41:03:
I don't know how to phrase this question without sounding silly, but let's try.
You have a marquis and a marchioness, a duke and a duchess, but you have an "earl" and a "countess", yet you use the word "count" for foreign "earls"; why is this so?
Why have a countess and not an "earless", or an earl instead of a count? Does anybody know where and how such titles were originated?
- Jarls Marie Bernadette 13:04:13 3/15/98
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- Titles Marie Bernadette 14:15:39 3/03/98
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- the French... P.Bingham 14:25:27 3/03/98
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- Oh, they admit it to each other... Marie Bernadette 17:34:48 3/03/98
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- Well, to be perfectly honest... P. Bingham 23:44:12 3/03/98
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- My mother had a similar experience in Québec (nfm) Marie Bernadette 10:51:22 3/04/98
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- It always amazes me Caroline 19:21:19 3/04/98
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- "What's a nice girl like you doing with a name like that?" or... Marie Bernadette 00:48:53 3/05/98
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- "What's a nice girl like you doing with a name like that?" or... Marie Bernadette 00:48:53 3/05/98
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- It always amazes me Caroline 19:21:19 3/04/98
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- My mother had a similar experience in Québec (nfm) Marie Bernadette 10:51:22 3/04/98
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- Well, to be perfectly honest... P. Bingham 23:44:12 3/03/98
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- Oh, they admit it to each other... Marie Bernadette 17:34:48 3/03/98
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- the French... P.Bingham 14:25:27 3/03/98
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- not an expert but... P. Bingham 13:56:12 3/03/98
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