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  2. Forms of address in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Salutation in letter Oral address King: HM The King: Your Majesty: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Sir" (or the archaic "Sire") Queen: HM The Queen: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Ma'am" (to rhyme with "jam") [4] [5] Prince of Wales: HRH The Prince of Wales HRH The Duke of Rothesay (in Scotland) Your Royal Highness: Your Royal Highness, and ...

  3. Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The distinguishing format is three digits, space, letter D or X, space and three digits. The letter D is predominately used for vehicles operated in or around the capital of London with the letter X allocated to vehicles outside London and for international organisations, [citation needed] unless otherwise stated by bilateral treaty or ...

  4. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Recommendation E.123 specifies the format of telephone numbers assigned to telephones and similar communication endpoints in national telephone numbering plans. In examples, a numeric digit is used only if the digit is the same in every number, and letters to illustrate groups.

  5. Style (form of address) - Wikipedia

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    In formal settings, it is a title reserved for royalty, select nobles, knights, dames, and church hierarchs. Informally, it is sometimes used as a mark of esteem for a person of personal, social or official distinction, such as a community leader of long standing, or a person of significant wealth.

  6. Postcodes in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    For consistency with the format of other UK addresses, in 2012 BFPO and Royal Mail jointly introduced an optional alternative postcode format for BFPO addresses, using the new non-geographic postcode area "BF" and the notional post town "BFPO". Each BFPO number is assigned to a postcode in the standard UK format, beginning "BF1".

  7. Date and time notation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    For 12-hour time, the point format (for example "1.45 p.m.") is in common usage and has been recommended by some style guides, including the academic manual published by Oxford University Press under various titles, [8] as well as the internal house style book for the University of Oxford, [9] that of The Guardian [10] and The Times newspapers.

  8. Victorian letter writing guides - Wikipedia

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    Believing that letters are valuable historical documents, James Willis Westlake, who was a public school teacher born just before the Victorian era in England in 1830, had moved to America at a young age where he published his book on the subject. [10] Westlake says letters are valuable in acquiring knowledge of past people and events. [9]

  9. European vehicle registration plate - Wikipedia

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    All letters used are intersection of Latin and Cyrillic alphabet, i.e. A, B, C, E, H, K, M, O, P, T, X and Y. The same format is in use in Ukraine since 90s, N.Macedonia and Spain until 2000 (but still valid, called "sistema provincial"). Greece uses a combination of three letters (before only two) that are homoglyphs of Latin letters, i.e. A ...