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Replying to @Ela_Hadrun @arthur_affect
It is a bizarre, pompous affectation, and for all I know extinct outside MA? I was helping out in a court in MA when I saw it in person, and all the references I can find online are from MA, and mostly saying “this is weird and old fashioned, knock it off”
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This contributes to my theory that lawyers are pissy they don’t get to be called “Dr” like everyone else with a doctoral degree. (And I don’t know why they don’t?)
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Originally it's because attorneys, like physicians, weren't "real doctors" (a professional degree is not the same thing as an academic degree, it only got called a "doctorate" by analogy)
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Oh that’s fascinating! And then lawyers didn’t follow physicians in borrowing the credibility of academics and the title “Dr”?
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For whatever reason it's something that stuck to physicians, in English I think lawyers in America started using "Esquire" (which in America has no actual meaning) to compensate
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Yeah, I’ve seen “esquire” (my dad is an attorney, it was on his business cards). But that hasn’t caught on with the general public, I don’t think.
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It’s another fun divide among lawyers! My father is on the “no, that’s pompous” side of the Esq. divide.
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I was honestly surprised when I saw my dad’s business card. He isn’t usually the type to go for pomposity!
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If you never had any ancestors who were employed to take care of a knight's horse and keep his armor polished then it's stolen valor
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