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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Thanks for this. It's a reminder that the South isn't monolithic, even as to things like this. Around here, Mr. FN would, as I said, be limited mostly to friends of one's parents (or perhaps men in a particular setting, like church), and somewhere in the 13-15 year-old-range, the "Mr." part tends to get dropped. I don't think I've ever heard anyone address their in-laws that way -- people here tend to either simply use first names or something like "mom" and "dad." (That's what my parents did; their own parents were "Mother" and "Daddy.")
And I totally agree about "ma'am" and "sir."
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Yeah, it's funny how different things can be state to state or even town to town. I'm trying to think what my parent's called my grandparents. I think it was Mr. and Ms. LN! I can't recall my mother EVER calling my grandmother by her FN.
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