Milord
Milord (French:
History
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The equivalent in Italian is milordo.[3] In Greece, the equivalent was "O Lordos". Lord Byron, who was involved in the Greek War of Independence, was known as "O Lordos" (The Lord), or "Lordos Veeron" (as the Greeks pronounced it), causing things as varied as hotels, ships, cricket teams, roads and even suburbs to be called "Lord Byron" today.[4][5]
The term provided the title for the 1959 French "
Alternative legal use
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"Milord" (in this use generally pronounced as, and sometimes written as, "M'lud": /məˈlʌd/) is not used in legal settings in the United Kingdom anymore, instead the form of address for several types of judges is just "My Lord".[7][8] Some courts in Canada also use the phrase.[citation needed]
It is common to see (in television or film portrayals of British courtrooms) barristers addressing the judge as "M'lud". This was the usual pronunciation until about the middle of the twentieth century in courts in which the judge was entitled to be addressed as "My Lord".[9] However, it is a pronunciation which is now obsolete and no longer heard in court.
References
- ^ a b c "milord". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ISBN 9780786499182
- ^ "milordo". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "On this day". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ "Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca | MyTravelGuide.com". Archived from the original on 23 May 2005. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
- ^ "Edith Piaf - Milord Lyrics". 25 October 2009. Archived from the original on 25 October 2009.
- ^ "What do I call a judge?". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ^ "Addressing a Judge". Judiciary of Scotland. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary s.v. "m'lud" (noun), which includes examples from 1853 (Dickens Bleak House i. 4 "‘Mr. Tangle,’ says the Lord High Chancellor... ‘Mlud,’ says Mr. Tangle.") and 1979 (Jo Grimond Memoirs iv. 67 "We coached him in all the palaver of the court,..the ‘Yes m'lud’ and ‘No m'lud’.")
External links
The dictionary definition of milord at Wiktionary
