Editing Post-nominal letters (section)

{{Short description|Letters placed after a person's name bestowing a rank or title to them}}
{{Hatnote|"Postnominal" redirects here. For adjectives that follow their noun, see [[Postpositive adjective|Postnominal adjective]].}}'''Post-nominal letters''', also called '''post-nominal initials''', '''post-nominal titles''', '''designatory letters''', or simply '''post-nominals''', are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation, an office, a military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity. An individual may use several different sets of post-nominal letters, but in some contexts it may be customary to limit the number of sets to one or just a few. The order in which post-nominals are listed after a name is based on rules of precedence and what is appropriate for a given situation. Post-nominal letters are one of the main types of [[Suffix (name)|name suffix]]. In contrast, [[pre-nominal letters]] precede the name rather than following it, such as addressing a [[physician]] or [[professor]] as "Dr. Smith".