Re: Forms of personal address

Quoting ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>:

[snip]
> 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