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  2. English honorifics - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.

  3. Honorific - Wikipedia

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    It is a formal way to refer to persons not overly familiar. It is also used as a pronoun for the word "you". พี่ (RTGS: phi) (falling tone) is used when speaking to or about an older sibling or friend. It is used for both men and women and can also be used when referring to oneself if one is older than the addressees.

  4. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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    you all are (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’ren’t: you all are not (colloquial/Southern American English) y’at: you at yes’m: yes madam / yes ma’am y'ever: have you ever y’know: you know yessir: yes sir you’d: you had / you would you’dn’t’ve: you would not have / you wouldn’t have you’ll: you shall / you ...

  5. Style (form of address) - Wikipedia

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    In formal settings, it is a title reserved for royalty, select nobles, knights, dames, and church hierarchs. Informally, it is sometimes used as a mark of esteem for a person of personal, social or official distinction, such as a community leader of long standing, or a person of significant wealth.

  6. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    The pronoun you (and its other forms) can be used as a generic or indefinite pronoun, referring to a person in general. A more formal equivalent is the indefinite pronoun one (reflexive oneself, possessive one's). For example, you should keep your secrets to yourself may be used in place of the more formal one should keep one's secrets to oneself.

  7. Honorifics (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. . Distinct from honorific titles, linguistic honorifics convey formality FORM, social distance, politeness POL, humility HBL, deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form such as an affix, clitic, grammatical ...

  8. Westminster show dogs’ names are long and complicated - AOL

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    The full, formal names of those chosen so far? That would make for a dizzying paragraph. If show dogs are the aristocrats of the canine world, they often have the names, titles and nicknames to match.

  9. Madam - Wikipedia

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    Madam (/ ˈ m æ d əm /), or madame (/ ˈ m æ d əm / or / m ə ˈ d ɑː m /), [1] is a polite and formal form of address for women in the English language, often contracted to ma'am [2] (pronounced / ˈ m æ m / in American English [2] and this way but also / ˈ m ɑː m / in British English [3]). The term derives from the French madame ...