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Message Subject When did it become acceptable to address men as "Mr" and then their First name instead of their last name?
Poster Handle Conservatarian
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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!
 Quoting: Clarence Worley


It's been done in the South (USA) for decades, when addressing someone who you know well enough to call by their first name, except it's considered slightly more formal and respectful.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80787713


Interesting. I won't consider these people ignorant then. I guess it was me being ignorant of southern culture. I had no idea. I wish the ladies at that doctors office would have told me it was a "southern thing"...then I would have known & understood. They just looked at me like I was some sort of anger junkie...even tho all I said was that it was an incorrect way of referring to someone. Oh well, live and learn. Anyway, thanks for the explanation. I get it now.
 Quoting: Clarence Worley


Anger Junkie... go back to Jersey or wherever the fuck you slithered in from
 
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