Knighthoods

[Pudcat]

Can you have have a o.b.e or similar after your name even if you havent been awarded one. Can you be prosecuted for it.??

[JimF]

Yes, if you use it for fraudulent purposes.

[dannyk13]

Depends if you use it fraudulently.

[hc4361]

It would need to stand for Obvious Blerdy Eejit as it is so easy for anyone to check.

[Canary42]

^^^^
PMSL

[Mamyalynne]

You struggling to get a good table in the restaurant tonight Pud?

[pastafreak]

Seems a rather silly thing to do...the letters after the name, not trying to get the good table. Not that the letters would make a difference...;)

[Mamyalynne]

I find "Do you know who I am?" works best - at least it confuses them a while.

[gingejbee]

My OH has an O.B.E......which usually appears on letters and official documents as Obe.

[vulcan42]

There was a Mr Earl who received an OBE, apparently some of his letters were addressed to Mr Ear lobe.

[Peter Pedant]

they are called post-nominals
and yes as you can imagine there are rules about them

no overlap - you cant invent an Order of Blinkey Ermine

I am not sure if it is a crime per se
VC and MC I think there is ( military orders)

clearly using it to raise credit is a crime of Fraud

pretending you are a doctor when you're not is agaisnt the law and the GMC takes an interest I am not sure how they enforce it

any employer will claim its money back in an action for fraud as you can only get a doctors whack if you ARE a doctor

see here ( military awards )
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/557785/JSP761_Part1.pdf

I cant really bring myself to read it

[Peter Pedant]

this is all I can find
https://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/threads/post-nominal-letters-are-they-regulated.99792/

There WAS a case where a non colonel MC landed up in court and limply said MC stood for Master Comptroller.
Cant remember what happened

Oh hey yeah
when MC was invented around 1915
The letters ( or - - - post nominals) MC were already in use for Master of Surgery ( or Chirurgery ) at Cambridge
So they wrote to all the old buggas and asked them to change in er 1916.
and all the old buggas trooped up to senate house and voted..... no ! so they kept MC
The last cambridge master of surgery MC died aged 115 and 1/2 a few years ago.....

( so it was changed to M Chir and the MC was then used)
well that was a bit funny for 1916 innit ?