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Hmm. Apparently in said system, the wife of an earl is a countess.

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Ah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl

The Norman-derived equivalent count (from Latin comes) was not introduced following the Norman Conquest of England though countess was and is used for the female title. Geoffrey Hughes writes, "It is a likely speculation that the Norman French title 'Count' was abandoned in England in favour of the Germanic 'Earl' [...] precisely because of the uncomfortable phonetic proximity to cunt".[7]

I imagine that Count Binface simply doesn't fear such proximity.