LL-L "Morphology" 2004.08.26 (03) [E]

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From: Thomas <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2004.08.25 (07) [E]

>L "Morphology" 2004.08.25 (07) [E]
Montgomery Michael <ullans at yahoo.com> wrote...
> I cannot comment on the practice of using the address forms "Miss" and
"Miz"
> in the African American community, but among whites in the American South
> the traditional pattern is pretty clear: it's "Miss" with given names and
> "Miz" with surnames.
My wife and I are recently back from a long overseas holiday.
When in London we attended Sunday morning service at a wonderful Neo Gothis
church now largely attended by very friendly West Indians.  We both noticed
that the congregants greeted each other with either the Mr or Mrs suffix
"Good mornin' to you Mrs Jones, how are you roday"sort of thing. They were
obviously all old friends but still used this formal mode of address which I
never came across in West Africa.

Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae PSOC
Brisbane Australia
"The masonnis suld mak housis stark and rude,
To keep the pepill frome the stormes strang,
And he that fals, the craft it gois all wrang."
>>From 15th century Scots Poem 'The Buke of the Chess'

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