Random thought. (No one who choses to read it should complain):I once saw an interesting Brit. use of ‘ilk’. When dealing with lordly titles, to avoid saying things like ‘Lord Butterbutt of Butterbutt’, they will say ‘Lord Butterbutt of that Ilk’.
(Oh, there’s a good example of why I hate the sans-serif capital I which can’t be discerned from the lowercase l. Even worse is Chicago, Ill, which looks like Chicago the Third…. OK, so it’s random thoughts, plural.)
Random thought. (No one who choses to read it should complain):I once saw an interesting Brit. use of ‘ilk’. When dealing with lordly titles, to avoid saying things like ‘Lord Butterbutt of Butterbutt’, they will say ‘Lord Butterbutt of that Ilk’.
(Oh, there’s a good example of why I hate the sans-serif capital I which can’t be discerned from the lowercase l. Even worse is Chicago, Ill, which looks like Chicago the Third…. OK, so it’s random thoughts, plural.)