Posted June 23, 2015

Honorary consul to something?

By Cami Hofstadter / November 15, 2021 / Comments Off on Honorary consul to something?

I have written about this before, but the incorrect preposition keeps cropping up. An honorary consul somewhere in the United States is not a representative to a foreign nation, but of or for. When Mr. Cornelissen became Belgium’s new honorary consul in the Boston area, several references were made to him as the consul to Belgium. This would imply that he’s a…

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