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TRex

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Herr?
« on: October 10, 2014, 05:28:41 AM »
Words like senor (señor), seignor, and seignior are already acceptable. So why not herr (tried it in the HEREAFTER puzzle, where even frere was accepted).

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Re: Herr?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2014, 04:44:38 AM »
Herr, herr! And especially since frau is accepted.
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Re: Herr?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2020, 02:25:55 PM »
Herr, herr! And especially since frau is accepted.

If frau wasn't already accepted, I would have great doubts about admitting it. Almost every English dictionary I consulted had both Herr and Frau capitalised, as forms of address.

However, there is one exception. Wiktionary, has a listing for frau, in lower case, but only Herr, with a capital H. The illustrative quote for frau uses the word as a descriptive term rather than as a form of address:

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It presents Dürer’s mother as a sharp-nosed, world-weary German frau looking wryly out at life from under a decorous wimple.

I don't think the word herr is ever used in English in a similar way. It's only used preceding someone's surname, where it's normally written with a capital H.
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