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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
Miss Manners would always stress, though, that a person's choices always trump the "rules." In other words, you call people what they want to be called, and it is rude to do otherwise. When a person introduces himself as Lord Henry Higginbottom the Eighth, that's what you call him. If an older person insists that you call her by her first name, not "Mrs. Jones," you oblige her.
I am a HUGE Miss Manners fan.
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Oh, I'd never be one of those rude, overbearing people who "corrects" someone as to his/her own name - it would just irritate me. But that's the cross I bear with many seemingly forgotten elements of etiquette. 
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