Thursday, March 05, 2009

First name terms

Gordon Brown kept calling the president ‘Barack’ in a clip I heard yesterday

Well, isn’t that just the modern informal British way?

Only if he calls the Queen ‘Liz’ – or ‘Lilibet’, just to prove he knows what real intimates call her, or used to when she was a child

Of course there are precedents. John Major determinedly called the father of George W plain folksy George. Mind you, he was making him a gift of a cricket bat at the time

It makes me cringe. It’s just plain rude & ignorant

Americans maintain the courtesy, even when their president is an ex






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