(10-03-2025, 09:52 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: Wonderful, wonderful! Oh you should start a thread!
I think it would be more interesting (and certainly better) if done in your voice.
It is an older one.... you rarely hear it now, but it's clearly not dead. No one is really keen to hear the tale of how this came to be in there..., or how it 20 years to ratify, and why it took 20 years...
I also heard a similar comment about not "esquire" but also BAR (as a codified term the a (royal) British Admiralty Representative... but I hadn't seen that before, so perhaps the complaint is evolving...
Now, I may be wrong in a lot of this... but maybe your new thread will clear all that up..... (

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[[Edit to add: I missed a joke... I should of said, "...new thread will 'square that away.'"]]
a text book example of why context and intention were so stringently constrained in the original documents.
Citizens don't need to codify a lot of bullshit... because its chic, en vogue, and en time...
Politician's beg to differ... ultimately for money.
When the historical evidence is produced - it's always "water under the bridge," isn't it?