Talk:Lord President of the Council

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I am right in thinking the plural of Lord President is Lords President, aren't I? Mothers-in-law and so on... Harris 20:39, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Nope. In this case the head-word of the noun phrase is "President", with "Lord" being an adjective signifying how important this particular President is. (Mothers-in-law are mothers, but Lord Presidents are Presidents, not Lords. [They may also be Lords, but that's incidental to the matter of them being Lord Presidents.]) Proteus (Talk) 00:19, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

That makes sense. I'll get me coat. Harris 13:51, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hmm...just realized the Lord Granville died in January 1763, while Bedford apparently didn't become Lord President until December Septemberg - anyone have handy anything which would note who (if anyone) filled in in the interim? I'll be able to look it up at some point, but not immediately. john k 21:37, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

On looking it up, it would appear that the post was empty between Granville's death and Bedford's appointment. 130.91.119.144 17:57, 24 February 2006 (UTC) [That was me. john k 17:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)]

[edit] Category

Someone's moved Category:Lord Presidents of the Council to (the incorrect, as per the discussion above) Category:Lords President of the Council, but I have no idea how category renaming works. I'm a bit annoyed that it works in a way that doesn't even bother checking the talk page of the associated article, but hey. Proteus (Talk) 16:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey, don't be too mad ... I have a few dozen category renamings to feed to my bot each day. It's simply impractical to full check each one; I just trust the Cfd people to feed my bot the right information. --Cyde↔Weys 13:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Is there anything to stop us moving it back? --Harris 17:15, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually I'm not sure "Lord Presidents" is correct. Apart from its appearance in a parliamentary report [1], "Lords President of the Council" is the form used by two respectable publications that carefully distinguish singular and plural forms, [2] and [3]. The only published source for Lord Presidents I can find online is a reprint of an historical book that seems somewhat out of date.--Lo2u 22:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

The category was changed to "Lords President", but for some reason it has been changed back... Ardric47 23:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, someone asked me to change it back claiming that "Lord Presidents" was correct ... gahhh ... okay, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to be doing other stuff for a few days, and once you guys hammer this out here, leave me a message on my talk page and I'll have Cydebot go through again and make sure everything is perfect. --Cyde↔Weys 15:54, 2 June 2006 (UTC)