LNS in Alabamastan

Still sounds very masculine to me - I just know I do not want to be one of the guys ---- Proud to be female.

DEfinitely Baltinmore-eze, Maryland....lived there for several years and EVERYONE is HON.

Gill

Gonna wave yoyr bra to prove it??? r.d.h.

Gill BTW, I have met Sheena, and if she is a guy, she fooled all of us.

Aah the old bra thing rears it's ugly head. Did you know that women did not burn their bras ? They actually tossed many different articles into the fires in the oil drums that particular time but of course one of the press caught the picture of a bra going in and the rest was history.

It was strenuous trying to keep my voice at such a high pitch lolol

I always thought that meant the person calling me hon didn't remember my name.

Now, depending on where you are, "y'al"l can be either plural or singular. If you *really* want to be sure you are using a plural, then there's the definative "All y'all" ;)

w x?V]SG|?^¦?`b"ü?r%|9¿¸j¥ÝmØÛUv÷¸ºüúôìIcTªt?f¦{zútnégÓînö?{ï?³²G¦?x?ZÑØùë&.îáV¿ßÿij?g;?ëyîíÓÖà`0 ??W=âÙDò?ÚfaæµÍûW¾ÝÖïïr¹?¶? ïß{É5ÉÛùßN·KÿÝwi[´ß??®" ï,¡ï¼ö?{?úþ`?+?=U¾IµU¼vå©«?øÖ| Ë@y{ô©®ï.~­B¤±(:j\åIÅÈ6jgé?6F+?oÙ"ÈUy!1¤

Um, excuse me? Did you read what she said? She would like to be called "ma'am." And I'm sure that Gillian can speak for herself. LOL!

Elizabeth

Honey. In New England it's part of the waitress uniform (but I've never heard a waiter use it, at least not a straight one).

Elizabeth

"Y'all" is NEVER properly singular.

Elizabeth

Bog off Brat ! (There, fix the grammar in that mutter mutter)

I assume it is a contraction of 'you all' as in not 'you'se guys' ?

She was just having a 'regal' moment lol

Elizabeth

I've ALWAYS liked you.

Elizabeth

My favourite story about the term 'Hon' is from a friend who was taking a very high powered German business man around Maryland. (The friend lived in Washington, and had a summer home on the Chesapeake). They stopped for lunch, and of course, the waitress used "Hon" in referring to them. ""Anymore coffee, Hon?"

After the third or fourth time, the visitor, visibly upset, asked our friend, in German, "Why is she calling me a Hun?" After getting his startled laughter under control, Robert explained the difference.

MargW

you've just nailed my pet peeve........why does one need a title at all. I can almost understand it if some grammatically correct correspondence of immense importance is to ensue, but in my experience that is seldom the case. Where it is the case I am seldom given the salutation of Mrs X, but more often addressed as personal and warm as one can get with Dear Customer, or worse, Dear Valued Customer. If one has a name that might apply to either gender there may be some sort of assistance rendered by a title, but at this late hour of the night I am hard pressed to think of any........My former husband has an old fashioned male name, that became popular as a girl's name about the time he reached high school - so he ended up on the girls list each year....he survived, and went on to name his daughters silly fashion names that they may struggle with for many years.

If I want to buy socks or notepaper on line the sender, package or mailman are all unlikely to care as to my marital status. (Where forms ask for my marital status I usually respond with something along the lines of dubious, confused, uncertain or doubtful depending on my frame of mind at the time).

My name prior to marriage was complicated, and after marriage it is long and very prone to mis-spelling........if I had the will I'd change it to something else, but then I list all the things I'd have to alter and go off the idea.

I could rant all night...........

Joanne in Perth, WA

Lol, good one !

I find it aggravating online because if I pay with a credit cards, they are all in my name with no Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms before the name, so I am actually adding something that is not on my account. If I pay with Pay Pal (seems one can do that much more frequently now) I have to be Ms. NSBucket - it's very disappointing.