[Magdalen] It's official

[ME Michaud]

Isn’t this just, uh, Latin? Or Latin form?
Where the adjective follows the noun?
If you said “emeritus professor” or “emeritus rector,”  everybody’d giggle.
-M

On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

> Actually, Roger, both “suffragan bishop” and “diocesan bishop” are
> informal usage, not technically correct. A "suffragan bishop" is more
> properly (wait for it) a “bishop suffragan”.
>