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List of honorifics may refer to: English honorifics; French honorifics; Canadian honorifics; Chinese honorifics; Filipino styles and honorifics; German honorifics;
Honorific suffixes also indicate the speaker's level, their relationship, and are often used alongside other components of Japanese honorific speech. [1] Honorific suffixes are generally used when referring to the person someone is talking to or third persons, and are not used when referring to oneself. The omission of suffixes indicates that ...
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
In U.S. culture, despite its republican constitution and ideology, [4] royalist honorific nicknames have been used to describe leading figures in various areas of activity, such as industry, commerce, sports, and the media; father or mother have been used for innovators, and royal titles such as king and queen for dominant figures in a field.
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I have heard - very occasionally - the "kun" honorific being applied in anime to girls of exceptional talent (one example being in an early episode of Ranma ½, where Genma refers to Soun's youngest daughter as "Akane-kun" after seeing her martial arts skill). Unfortunately, I don't have any secondary-source citations for this usage.