Florida legislators recently passed legislation to prevent advanced practice nurses in Florida with doctorates from using the honorific “doctor.” The state House and Senate bills proposed that nurses ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has done away with the honorific title "monsignor" for all but a few priests, further evidence of his desire for priests to be simple, humble servants. The Vatican's ...

On Tuesday, Dictionary.com added a new batch of words ranging from the eyebrow-licious on fleek to the Apple-propelled digital wallet. Like every group of additions to the dictionary, the entries ...

Supreme Court justices on Wednesday used the preferred honorific of the first openly transgender-identifying person to argue before the high court during oral arguments in a landmark case on the ...

Why do honorific awards matter? Earning an honorific award is more than just personal recognition—it’s a testament to the impact of your work on your discipline, students, and the community. Awards ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

If you choose Ms as your honorific, others may think you mean more than you do. And it may not be a meaning that applies to you or any way related to why you choose to be a Ms. Ms has attracted such a ...

The unveiling of a new statue of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip has, in the polite euphemism of news reports, “divided opinion”. The bronze in Antrim Castle Gardens near Belfast, depicts the ...

The physicist Richard Feynman (1918–88), studying Japanese while in postwar Kyoto, rapidly ran into difficulties as his teacher tried to get him to learn three separate words for “see.” When inviting ...

As languages grow further apart in terms of their similarities, translator systems often become less accurate in producing accurate and grammatical translations. An example of this is in regards to ...