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Re: Forms of personal address

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, April 27, 2008, 18:59
Quoting ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>:

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> Admittedly I'm of a distant time, generation, and geography-- when I was a > child, my friends' parents/relatives etc. were ALWAYS Mr./Mrs Lastname. I > seem to recall one friend who called his parents by their first names, but > there had been a divorce so they were beyond the pale....
I typically address my parents* with their given names. It's an idiosyncrasy (I don't know anyone else who does it, not even my younger siblings) I picked up before I can remember. On occasion it's caused people to assume I have bad relations with them, which is not the case. * Who are still happily married to one another. -- Andreas Johansson