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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Oh, that's interesting. That makes sense!
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I wonder how this intersects with inheritance structures like gavelkind.
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Another fun fact is that the title "grave" for "count" in France was a homonym for "grave" meaning "heavy" or "weight" The original basic metric unit of weight was the grave, the weight of one liter of water, with one thousandth of a grave called a gram
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But after the French Revolution the anti-aristocracy sentiment was so intense that the name "grave" was considered unacceptable, so it was renamed a "kilogram" This is why today we have the awkward fact that the official base unit of mass in SI is called the "kilogram"
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