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When did it become acceptable to address men as "Mr" and then their First name instead of their last name?
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[quote:Clarence Worley:MV81MDM5ODM4XzkyMzM2OTkwXzU1MDQzRDQ=] [quote:Possum70:MV81MDM5ODM4XzkyMzM2NTQzXzIwRUQ5NTQ3] always been that way in southern states. Last name is formal for non-aquatinted. Mr./Mrs. followed by first name is polite from kids/subordinates to known adults/elders. Are you not from America? Maybe Minnesota or some heathen state akin to it. Hell, a kid from up there’d call his Mother by her first name, shoot dice and gamble agin her. Godless bunch up there. [/quote] Apparently for some, the civil war never ended! [/quote]
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Everywhere I go now I am addressed formally by my first name instead of my last name. So for example, if my name was James Smith, I would be addressed as "Mr James" instead of "Mr Smith". How & why did this become the norm?!? I don't get it!
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