Seeing all these comments about married women being addressed by their
husbands name prefixed with Mrs set off one of my pet niggles. My
family background is Quaker, and I taught to address people by their
given name & family name and not to use titles as everyone is equal,
and using titles denote inequality. For myself I only ever use my
given name & family name, Rosemary Naish, and normally this is
acceptable, except when you come to a computer. Most systems seem to
insist on using a title, so I always use the default, which is normally
set to "Mr" - this does seem to upset a lot of sales assistants, bank
clerks etc, but I think it just shows how out of date and ridiculous
the whole system of courtsey titles is. What I have no problem with is
titles that have been earned, like Doctor, Professor, etc. What do
other people think?
Rosemary,
Somerset
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