When someone has been awarded an honorary doctorate, what is their title (assuming they have no other graduate degrees)? Do you call them “Dr.”?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The answer is that you call them what they prefer. There are no hard and fast rules on the honorary doctorate. It is, after all, and unearned degree (in the academic sense), given as an honorific, too often for reasons that have little to do with academia. So is it proper to infer academic distinction on one who has not earned it? On the other hand, it is an honorific, which has been earned, and may be acknowledged. Most often, the decision is left to the preference of the recipients.