if there is one traditional aspect of being American I live by, it’s absolutely refusing to acknowledge or play along with British royalty and nobility bullshit
If you want me to call you "Sir whatever" you'd better show me the head of the dragon you slew because as far as I am concerned that is the only way someone can be addressed as a knight.
Calling someone sir seems somehow less weird than calling someone Mayor, Governor, President, Secretary or whatever years..even decades after they’ve left office.
In the case of the new PM, this is fine, and not even slightly edgy. Even the BBC doesn't call him Sir Keir most of the time.
But nobody in the UK says "Sir Starmer", that's like calling Charles "King Windsor". Not offensive, but sounds very weird.
