Nova wrote: > - but they began to find it > awkward for their little children to try to teach them to use the *Mr and Mrs* > title when speaking to the other adults so they elected to use the first > names (the children were already familiar with) - but adding Mr. or > Mrs. for a sign of respect, thus using Mr. Eric and Miss Sharon (for example) - > rather than have the children call the adults by first name only. :-) > As a small child, I never knew our neighbours' first names, but called them "Auntie Gillies", "Auntie Catford" etc. although they were not real relations.
Martha wrote: > Most American children are given a first and a middle name at birth > (though knowing that I was unlikely to have a fourth child, we gave > both grandfathers' names as middle names to Ian William Herbert > Krieg), so Catholics may easily end up with three names. I was born to Dorothy and William Burgh. My father said that, with a surname like Burgh, nobody needed a middle name for identification, so I never had one. My Mother used to be Dorothy May Smith; as a child there was another Dorothy May Smith in the same class at school. Maybe Smiths need more than one middle name! David wrote: > And yet here in Australia we would say Dah-na and Tah-ra: never > anything different with those two. Same here, David - and I was brought up in Scotland. And Steph wrote: > In my childhood in the 1960s I remember addresses on letters arriving for my mother only > addressed to Mrs Alan Hollis. To a child it seemed creepy that letters to > my grandmother were addressed with my grandfather's name, given that he had > been dead for over 20 years. My mother was Mrs William Burgh until my father died, then she became Mrs Dorothy Burgh. I thought that was the norm - a widow uses her own first name. And I was the last Burgh in our family, so I kept the name alive in my e-address <G>. Margery. ============================================ [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK ============================================ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
