| 词组 | Honorable |
| 释义 | Honorable Honorable is a title of respect in American use but one with no official standing, and—perhaps not surprisingly—it is the subject of a number of conflicting commentaries. We set aside the vexed question of who is entitled to an Honorable and who is not as essentially a matter for books on etiquette, and concentrate here on the more linguistic aspects of the issue. We can tell you this: the word is capitalized when used as an honorific. It is generally preceded by the (a terrible row over the omission of the seems to have gone on in the 1870s). It is generally followed by the given name, initials, or some other title (as Mr.). It is abbreviated to Hon. when appropriate (though the abbreviation was on William Cullen Bryant's Index Expurgato-rius of the 1870s). Copperud 1980 points out that H. L. Mencken was using the term derisively fifty years ago, and there is evidence that others do not always use the term with solemnity either: • My former Secretary of Agriculture, the Hon. Charlie Brannan —Harry S. Truman, diary, 24 June 1955 It looks like this in more straightforward surroundings: • ... the court of the Honorable Harmon T. Langley —Frank De Felitta, Cosmopolitan, August 1976 Outright disapproval lasted into the 1930s: • No American is "Honorable." "The Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt" is as incorrect as "The Hon. Bath • House John Coughlin." It is strictly a British handle —Stanley Walker, City Editor, 1934 Copperud opines that the term seems "to be going out of use in our blunter age," but that sort of prediction does not always come true. See also Reverend, Rev.. |
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