[Magdalen] It's official

[Christopher Hart]

Yes, as in my earlier example of Attorney General. Saying General Attorney
wouldn't make any sense at all. One of my pet peeves is people, in the
media in particular, who pluralize that term as Attorney Generals rather
than Attorneys General. I'm pretty sure I've heard Bishop Suffragans too,
rather than Bishops Suffragan. It's the noun that gets pluralized, not the
adjective.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 6:14 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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”.
> >
>


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