How to name a couple?
Sir Crispin, and Lady Zenobia, Flowerdew
or
Sir Crispin and Lady Zenobia Flowerdew?
The first makes the fragrant Lady Zenobia seem like an afterthought,
while the second suggests the possibility that Sir Crispin is not a
Flowerdew.
[An afterthought: if one actually wanted to convey that Sir Crispin is
not a Flowerdew would one write
Sir Crispin, and Lady Zenobia Flowerdew?]
--
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it.
It's all a matter of training.
--Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy L Sayers' _Have His Carcase_
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