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Re:Gwern's Perfume Reviews by tirant on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:58AM (#44601647)
I’m curious, being a county does that also imply that a Count of LA exists? And the same for each county in the USA?
Re:Gwern's Perfume Reviews by kqr on Friday July 18, 2025 @02:55AM (#44601971)
The counties are administrative and there are bureaucrats who lead the county, but they are not titled, noble Counts and Countesses.

In Sweden, we also have administrative regions translated as counties, which are lead by someone I'd directly translate as "county chief" (as in "chief over this tribe") but they're anonymous bureaucrats a normal person wouldn't know about. (The common translation is the less exciting "governor".)

Re:Gwern's Perfume Reviews by pjc50 on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:56AM (#44603263)
Not even true for the UK, which does have geographic peerages but they're not really linked to the county boundaries any more.

For some reason, the UK doesn't issue the title of "count", only "viscount". "Marquis" is linked etymologically to "marches", an old type of land allocation boundaries, but again not in practice.

Re:Gwern's Perfume Reviews by IAmBroom on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:34PM (#44637978)
The UK version of "count" is "earl".
Re:Gwern's Perfume Reviews by lukas099 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @11:19AM (#44616245)
No. To quote Hank Hill, we fought an entire war with England over that.