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Re: You have a word for it?

From:The Keenans <makeenan@...>
Date:Sunday, January 27, 2002, 21:48
Fabian wrote:
> > > Back about 150 years ago, the common word for this was 'master', and > exactl;y equivalent to 'miss'.
This is correct as far as I understand the term accept that it only applies to boys twelve and under. Then IIRC there is a gap until the boy becomes 21 when he has no honorific. At age 21 of course he becomes a mister.
> -- > Fabian > It ain't the money, it's the job title. > It ain't the job title, it's what you do. > It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it. > That's what it's all about.