Talk:Tanche family

Letters patent
"Letters patent" is a plural noun. Oxforddictionaries.com has: "letters patent – plural noun – An open document issued by a monarch or government conferring a patent or other right." There is no singular form (letter patent). Also see Letters patent: "They are called "letters" (plural) from their Latin name litterae patentes, used by medieval and later scribes when the documents were written in Latin, in the ancient sense of a collection of letters of the alphabet arranged to be read rather than in the modern sense of an "epistle" or item of correspondence: thus no singular form exists." For this reason, I will change the article to show "Letters", not "Letter". Chris the speller  yack  16:02, 3 October 2016 (UTC)