Originally Posted by
Sam Rutherford
Sorry, yes - but it would be nice for her to actually call it by the same name as the University that gave it to her.
Similar to when she describes herself as Cdr when in fact she is a Lt.Cdr.
But yes, she's not incorrect in calling it a degree.
To digress slightly, dunno about other places, but at Cambridge the honorary MA can be regarded as higher status than the honorary doctorate ('cos it's give to fewer people and for more specific reasons), which is the other way around from the earned versions of those degrees. But as they're far more common one would assume that someone claiming to have an "honorary degree" had an honorary doctorate not an MA.
Here's an "only-in-Cambridge" honorary degree story, if you haven't seen it before:
Road sweeper to receive Cambridge University honorary degree - Telegraph
(I went to Allan's ceremony, so he had at least one familiar face in the Senate House.)