The Victorian English had a very bad habit of being influenced by words and at the same time pretending to despise them.

They would build their whole historical philosophy upon two or three titles, and then refuse to get even the titles right.

The solid Victorian Englishman, with his whiskers and his Parliamentary vote, was quite content to say that Louis Napoleon and William of Prussia both became Emperors--by which he meant autocrats.

His whiskers would have bristled with rage and he would have stormed at you for hair-splitting and "lingo," if you had answered that William was German Emperor, while Napoleon was not French Emperor, but only Emperor of the French.

What could such mere order of the words matter?
Yet the same Victorian would have been even more indignant if he had been asked to be satisfied with an Art Master, when he had advertised for a Master of Arts.