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For flowery speech we escalate to sentence fragments. Your Grace, Your Eminence, Madam President, Your Honor. Or honorifics in front of or around proper names, like Mister Rogers, Doctor House, Nurse Ratched (anarchic now, the doctors have one that PR campaign) or “General Granger, Sir”. There are some parliamentary ones that pretty much only show on in Congress and on CSPAN.


Let us not forget Grand Exalted Poobah.


And my favorite one (in UK): Governor!


I think that one's used more ironically, now


Yeah typically ‘Guv. Or Guv’ner rather than governor.




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