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'''Bernard:''' Well, take the Foreign Office. First, you get the CMG, then the KCMG, then the GCMG. The Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Of course, in the service, CMG stands for "Call Me God." And KCMG for "Kindly Call Me God."
'''Hacker:''' What does GCMG stand for?
'''Bernard:''' "[[Blasphemous Boast|God Calls Me God]]."
''[[Yes Minister]]'', Doing The Honours }}
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* Actress (Dame) Judi Dench has mentioned the confusion her title causes in the USA: she is known formally as "Dame Judi", but rather than being called "Dame Dench", which would simply be the wrong application of her actual title, she experiences a very specific form of mislabelling possibly due to her first name's similarity to a ''different'' title, which does roll off the tongue - she gets called "Lady Dench"... which would be correct if only she were a peer of the realm. Presumably if she is ever actually elevated to the peerage then she'll get further misnamed "Lady Judi", and so on.
A similar error happens with the "Lord" and "Lady" prefixes. Peers (other than dukes) are, as mentioned above, usually referred to as "Lord/Lady Title-name". The wives of male peers, knights, and baronets are always "Lady Title-name", not and never "Lady Firstname Title-Name". The construction "Lord/Lady Firstname" is considered a "style", not a "title", and is only given to the daughters and younger sons of senior peers - well-known examples include Lady Diana Spencer and the fictional Lord Peter Wimsey, son of a duke. Naturally the media [[
Some Britons (those of the smug, sneering, sarcastic, snide stereotype) seem to think that deliberately getting titles and styles wrong makes them cool and edgy, because it shows that they don't care about these things. In reality it just makes them look ignorant, and arrogantly ignorant at that. [[Captain Obvious|Factual inaccuracy generally isn't considered a sign of intellectual superiority]].
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