LL-L "Kinship terms" 2006.05.09 (01) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 09 May 2006 * Volume 01
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From: "Tom Mc Rae" <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Kinship terms" 2006.05.08 (08) [E]

On 09/05/2006, at 8:40 AM, Heather Rendall
<HeatherRendall at compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> In Dickens most middle class children are portrayed as calling
> their father
> 'Sir' and I would also go as far as saying that most 19th and early
> century
> public schoolboys would address all male adults including family as
> 'Sir'.
American Episcopal Bishop Spong recounts in his memoirs how this was
the custom in The South when he grew up.
He got hell from his father for addressing a Black American man as
'Sir'.
There are still residues of this in Society, even here in Australia
our next door neighbour's boy always called his father 'Sir'
but that man was odd in many other ways.

Regards
Tom Mc Rae
Brisbane Australia
Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us
Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us
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