• tal@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

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    Hmm. Apparently in said system, the wife of an earl is a countess.

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    Ah.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl

    The Norman-derived equivalent count (from Latin comes) was not introduced following the Norman Conquest of England though countess was and is used for the female title. Geoffrey Hughes writes, “It is a likely speculation that the Norman French title ‘Count’ was abandoned in England in favour of the Germanic ‘Earl’ […] precisely because of the uncomfortable phonetic proximity to cunt”.[7]

    I imagine that Count Binface simply doesn’t fear such proximity.

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      To think we were this close to having Count Grey tea…

      (nothing funny about it, just fun to imagine an alternative timeline)

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      I’m going to take this opportunity to ask a very off topic question:

      Did you give up kagi?

      • tal@lemmy.today
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        Nope. But I did discover that is based in Serbia, and I felt that I couldn’t recommend it based on that (e.g. if there were privacy issues, I’m not sold that the legal regimen would be strong enough for much to happen to the company).