Use of Courtesy Titles and Honorifics in Professional Writing - Styles Used Sometimes

Styles Used Sometimes

• The Nobel Prize Nobelprize.org. Style/honorific used in the biography of the Nobel Laureate the Dalai Lama. But no honorific used of (The Honorable) Jimmy Carter, (The Rev. Dr.) Martin Luther King, Jr., (The Most Rev. Archbishop) Desmond Mpilo Tutu .
• The Scotsman. One of the most, if not the most, important newspapers in Scotland. E.g. Prince Charles styled in, but not in or . Styles in small minority of articles where potentially applicable. cf and . Notice that in both searches roughly half of the hits on first two pages are not applicable to this discussion.
• Pravda. Style used for Pope Benedict XVI in opinion column, e.g., but not in news articles, e.g.
• The Nation, Thailand. Style used only for King of Thailand (per Thai law), e.g. ; not for Popes or foreign royalty
• Times of Oman. Style used only of Sultan Qaboos bin Said (and other Omani royalty), but not of Saudi royalty in same article, e.g. ; nor of Catholic popes, e.g.
• CNN. Styles generally not used, but sometimes in "human interest" section, e.g. His Holiness, referring to the Dalai Lama. Also here (but this looks like implicit quotation)
• The BBC: Styles usually not used. E.g. somewhat encyclopedic bias of Queen Elizabeth II, Pope Benedict XVI, John F. Kennedy. Some "human interest" stories use styles for British royals, e.g., .
• Two newspapers based in Brunei. See and .
  • Brudirect.com more commonly omits styles for foreign monarchs than includes them .
• Gulf Daily News Styles used of Bahraini royalty, e.g. His Majesty King Hamad, but not of foreign religious figures (e.g. Pope Benedict XVI) or royalty (e.g. Queen Elizabeth II or Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah).
• Canada: The country's main national newspaper, the Globe and Mail uses honorifics in the body of most news articles, except for sports, arts, and some editorials . Canada's other national newspaper, the National Post has a similar use of honorifics and style. Most Canadian city broadsheets do not use honorifics.