Now, frankly, I am not all that serious about this subject - and I take it that no one is going to call anyone out because of it.

HOWEVER. You may say all you like that flagger, firefighter, Chair are wrong- it don't make a bit of difference to me. In MY country, we don't much hold with mouldy ideas of what used to be being all that important.

A flagger is one who waves the flag to stop traffic. A firefighter is one who fights fires, especially seasonal forest and brush fires. A Chairperson is one who is holding down the function of chairing a meeting at that particular event. (If someone were to seriously refer to 'personhole' he or she would be laughed out of the meeting.)

While nobles, Ha! I wag my nose at you. Who originally got to decide who were the nobles and who the base born? "Noble" may just as easily mean the wastrel son of an idle father as it could mean a servant of the people with an elegant code of conduct.

Kings and queens- again a chortle. In the past they may just as easily have been the scion of a gardener as of another king or queen, not to even bring in whether they were of the same race or culture or nationality.

Pshooie.

;)