- Whats the difference between a vicar and a pastor?
Note that up to the 20C, holy orders (training to be a CofE vicar) was the about only official course at some Oxford and Cambridge colleges So people like the mathematician author Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) were officially vicars or training to be vicars For a novelist, the vicar and vicar's daughter are pretty much stock 19C characters
- etymology - When did More tea vicar? start to be used after farting . . .
Paul Beale has collected various forms for a revision of Partridge Catch Phrases, including 'good evening, vicar!'; 'no swearing please, vicar' (said facetiously to introduce a note of the mock highbrow into a conversation full of expletives); 'another cucumber sandwich, vicar' (after an involuntary belch); 'speak up, Padre! Brown Ginger (you
- Should words be capitalized for being religious terms?
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- capitalization - Do military titles get capitalized? - English Language . . .
[Examples:] Miss Dunn, the head teacher; Anne Williams, our mnaging director; Mr Gladstone, the prime minister; Dr Primrose, the parish vicar Titles used before a name are normally capitalized, and are not followed by a comma:
- Please explain this joke about two nuns in a bath [closed]
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- Is there a difference between vice, deputy, associate, and . . .
When vice, deputy, associate, or assistant is collocated with a job title, such as vice manager, deputy manager, associate manager, assistant manager, I wonder how to rank or differentiate their le
- Is Reverend a title, honorific, style or merely an adjective
Vicar, Rev John Johnson ) 'The Reverend Mr Johnson' is very old-fashioned In recent decades there seems to be an increasing tendency in the media and elsewhere to use 'Reverend Johnson', which I had always understood to be the American usage
- When should titles like captain or admiral be capitalized?
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- Is there a single-word verb meaning “to perform cunnilingus on”?
A man comes home and finds the vicar cunnilinguing his wife The OED does provide other citations as well, but those should suffice to illustrate the matter without risking too much undue titillation or cachinnation in those prone to such
- Origin of the word cum - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Etymonline explains: cum (verb and noun) seems to be a modern (by 1973) variant of the sexual sense of come that originated in pornographic writing, perhaps first in the noun sense
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