> > This may not be breaking news, but that has never stopped me posting before. And besides, this is a curiosity post, not an informative one.
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> > Mayor Rudy received an honourary knighthood for managing the WTC event last year. That makes him officially Rudolph Giuliani KBE, his new-found letters standing for "Knight of the British Empire." However, unlike most knights, he is not entitled to a title; that is, he is not *Sir* Rudy. The reason behind it is simply that he's not British, and so can't be sir-ed by Liz. That got me thinking. Can Americans obtain a "sir" title in any other way? Is there a US equivalent, otherwise?
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> > Matthew
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> I suppose it depends on what you mean by "equivalent". There's no American honour (honor?) that allows its holder to be a Sir, but I suppose you could argue that various medals would confer a similar status upon their recipients. Not that I know what they are.
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> However, an American *can* become a Sir, if he's knighted by the right country. I believe that both Spain and Poland allow knighted foriegners to call themselves Sir. Probably others do, too.
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> winter"A knight of St. Stanislaw?"mute

Just to inject a little humor here, I regularly receive a lot of mail with the title *Sir Knight* but I prefer to just be...

Cal"A Knight of Columbus"vin