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niyad

(121,602 posts)
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 08:35 PM Feb 2021

Should First Lady be capitalized? So we have Dr. Jill Biden. Most people cannot be bothered with [View all]

her title (and I refuse to capitalize any qop's name or title, but that is just me.). So I go to google, and find conflicting style manual answers, including the one from the very traditionalist ?White House museum, which says no, unless followed by name. Then ?I found the answer from DRM about everything (sorry, my computer will not let me link, or copy and paste), which says that lack of capitalization of First Lady is basically a sexist holdover.

So, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden it is.

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