Re Is it a M$ world?

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren  wrote:

>> 2.2.2 her nephew the MP for Bristol.
>>Are you positing here that the nephew is her sister's son? Because
if not, there can be no certainty that the MP is in fact her brother's
child and, therefore, her nephew.<<
What I intended was that the Countess of Errol was the sister of the
Admiral's wife, and the MP for Bristol was the son of a brother or
sister of the Earl of Errol (i.e., the countess's nephew, but only by
marriage). If saying it aloud, the last 'her' would be stressed:
"Admiral Sir Richard Founder and his lady, and her sister, the Countess
of Errol, and _her_ nephew the MP for Bristol." (No comma after
"nephew," because he's not her only nephew; Sir Richard and his wife
have a couple of kids, who are her real nephews.)

Patricia M. Godfrey