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Hmmm, interesting. Would you call someone Mrs. Mary for example? I grew up with kids whose parents sort of did that, but it was always either Mr. or Miss First Name. The "rule" was if you were going to use first names, it was always Miss for women, regardless of whether or not they were married. Mrs. only "applied" to the last name, so if you wanted to call her Mrs., it had to be Mrs. Last Name. The one lady who didn't follow the rule insisted her kids call my mom Mrs. First Name, and because my mom's first name can also be a last name (but obviously isn't HER last name) it always sounded wrong to me.

My brother and I always called adults by their first names, though, unless they had a specific title. If they could call us by our first names, we could call them by their first names. My parents weren't the type of people who thought adults automatically deserved respect from kids just because they were older, and we didn't have any of that "respect your elders" stuff if they didn't do anything to actually earn respect.

I think doctors are different, though...if they can spend a decade in school/internships then they deserve the respect of the title, but just being an adult doesn't mean you automatically deserve one.

And wow, that got way off topic, but it's interesting how differently people are raised when it comes to this kind of thing.

Now that you mention it, I think it was Ms. First Name, not because of any hard rule, but because it just sounds more natural. Dang. Now I'm going over it in head, wondering if I've called someone Mrs. or Ms. First Name.

Lol, it's funny. It wasn't a question of whether or not an adult deserved respect, it was a question of me being polite.

That's interesting! The way it was framed when I was growing up was always as an issue of respect, not politeness. You said "please" and "thank you" to be polite, but titles were about respect and had nothing to do with being polite. Maybe my parents were just weird lol

I think it's a regional thing, like Lunabee mentioned. When I was in college I called my professors Dr. First Name. The other people in the program from Virginia did the same, but not the folks from New York, Vermont, or Pennsylvania.

What did the other people call them? Just First Name or Dr. Last Name? With mine, I went with what they asked to be called...some preferred Dr. First Name, others Dr. Last Name, and a couple just First Name because they hated being formal.

Like I said in the reply to Lunabee, I'm in the south as well...but maybe my family and the people I knew/grew up around were just weird. Who knows.

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