| Majestic pronoun |
LA Times Daily |
26 Oct 2025 |
| Pronoun used by sovereigns |
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| Pronoun also known as pluralis majestatis |
New York Times |
26 Apr 2025 |
| Princely prerogative |
Newsday |
31 Jan 2025 |
| Monarch's plural pronoun |
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| Pompous pronoun |
New York Times |
07 Dec 2024 |
| It's also called a "majestic plural" |
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| Victoria's one abysmally low year? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
13 Nov 2023 |
| Sovereign's self-reference |
Newsday |
28 Jul 2023 |
| Pronoun heard in 'Hamlet' and 'Richard II,' appropriately |
New York Times |
25 May 2023 |
| Sovereign's singular |
New York Times |
29 Jan 2023 |
| Lawyer confused about old special plural |
The Guardian Cryptic |
02 Jan 2023 |
| 'I' |
New York Times |
02 Sep 2021 |
| Victorian syntax |
Newsday |
27 Feb 2021 |
| Fancy 'I' |
New York Times |
22 Jan 2021 |
| Queen’s self-reference |
Wall Street Journal |
18 May 2020 |
| Queen’s self-allusion |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Nov 2019 |
| King's self-allusion |
The Washington Post |
09 Aug 2019 |
| King's self-allusion |
LA Times Daily |
09 Aug 2019 |
| Pompous pronoun |
New York Times |
28 Jul 2019 |
| Monarch's self-referential plural pronoun (AL Central) |
The Washington Post |
29 Apr 2019 |
| Monarch's self-referential plural pronoun (AL Central) |
LA Times Daily |
29 Apr 2019 |
| Queen's self-allusion |
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| King's self-allusion |
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| Pompous pronoun |
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| Monarch's self-referential plural pronoun (AL Central) |
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| What I may turn into |
New York Times |
29 Oct 2017 |
| Sovereign's self-reference |
Newsday |
26 Feb 2017 |
| What I may turn into |
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| The Queen's I |
The Times Concise |
09 Dec 2016 |
| George I's I |
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| Majestic euphemism |
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| Sovereign's 'I,' often |
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| Majestic euphemism |
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| Sovereign euphemism |
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| Sovereign euphemism |
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| Pluralis majestatis |
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| Pompous plural pronoun |
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| Pluralis majestatis |
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| Elizabethan pronoun? |
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| The "I" of Elizabeth I? |
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| What I may become |
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| Formal pronoun |
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| I alternative |
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| I may be replaced by it |
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| Ultraformal "I" |
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| I, in so many words |
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