watching ENOLA HOLMES with @cearo_thyme got me thinking I have no fuckin clue what the difference between a Marquis and a Marquess is, or in what if any contexts other than RHCP songs the word is pronounced "mahr-KEE"
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ok but no, this is *bizarre* - according to Wikipedia, almost *every single* European language [except German, but including French] has words cognate to both margrave and marquis, which it doesn't seem like correspond to two distinct ranks.
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and if there's a general trend of avoiding translating noble ranks to non-cognate words, why *didn't* this happen with count/earl/graf [though count/earl is maybe an example of it *partially* happening]?
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