letters after (one's) name

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letters after (one's) name

A series of abbreviations indicating the various levels of higher education or military honors one has received, thereby denoting a presumed level of intelligence, wisdom, or respectability. I hate hanging out with your PhD colleagues—it seems like they'll only take you seriously if you have letters after your name. Those letters after your name do not prove your worth to me; in my eyes, you're still just a fool.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Placide	-	French
Feruza	-	Uzbek
Horatio	hə-RAY-shee-o, hə-RAY-sho	English
JÓZefa	yuw-ZEF-ah	Polish
Maria	mah-REE-ah (Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch), mə-REE-ə (Catalan, English), MAHR-yah (Polish), MAH-ree-ah (Finnish)	Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, Dutch, Frisian,
Vlad	VLAHT (Russian)	Russian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic