Forms of address (title)

✨Forms of address (title)

In English there are many forms of address or titles such as:

• Sir (for a knight)
• Dr (for a medical doctor or a holder of a PhD doctorate)

but the common forms of address are Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms.

• Mr for men
• Mrs, Miss and Ms for women.

💢The first rule to know is that these titles should NEVER be used with the person's first name in the English speaking culture.

👱🏻‍♂️If my name is John Smith then you would call me:

• John✅
• Mr. Smith✅
• or Mr. John Smith✅
depending on the circumstances, but never Mr. John.❌

⚠️When I visit India and other Eastern contries they call me Mr Paul, or, in Japan, they call me Paul san, this is them being polite in their culture. I don't have a problem with this, it's just not our way.

👑One exception to this rule is for Royalty and knights, or their wives, Sir John Smith and Lady Janet Smith, would be called Sir John and Lady Janet.

👩🏻For women the title depends on her marital status.

• Mrs is for a married woman.
• Miss is for a woman who is definitely single.
• Ms is used when there is uncertainty about her marital status.

🔻If my name was Janet Brown you would never call me Mrs Janet, or Miss Janet.❌

I would be Mrs, or Miss Brown, or even Mrs Janet Brown.✅

🚩These titles tend to only be used in formal situations.

🚩Business customers are addressed using their title.

🚩People in a more senior position to you may have to be referred to by their title.

🚩Students, particularly young students, may have to do the same with their teachers. In schools in the English speaking world teachers are called sir and miss. Even if a woman teacher is married she is still called miss.

✨Examples:
🔹'Is my answer correct sir?'
🔹'May I go to the toilet miss?'.

🚩Outside schools the term 'sir' is only used in formal circumstances such as in business, it is used in lieu of their name.

🇺🇸The Americans tend to use 'sir' more often than other English speaking countries.

✨For most of the time, in non-formal situations, we will only use the person's first name when addressing them.

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