"Leader DeLay"??? What's up with that?

[Patti J. Kurtz]

flanigan at OHIOU.EDU wrote:

>
>Our adjuncts and even TAs are often called "Dr."  One adjunct, and M.A.,
>delights in it.  The TAs correct the students but often accept "Professor"
>with delight.
>
>
I used to be thrilled at being called "Professor" when I was a mere
instructor.

>I hear "Miss" generally only in restaurants, stores, etc., when one wants
>to get the attention of the so-addressed person.  No one would be caught
>dead saying "Ma'am" anymore, right?
>
>
You should live here!  I get "Ma'am" all the time from my students at
the Air Force Base as a direct address, usually in e mails starting with
'Ma'am."  It was (maybe still is) popular in the south as well-- when I
lived in Oklahoma, I was "ma'amed" to death.

Patti Kurtz

>
>
>>One possiblity is that, since drop-down lists are always in alphabetical
>>order, the authors of on-line forms do not, for various reasons, like a
>>drop-down list that read
>>       Miss
>>       Mr.
>>       Mrs.
>>       Ms.
>>
>>                   - James A. Landau (who is Mr., not Dr.)
>>
>>

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Freeman - Long day?



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