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  2. Style (form of address) - Wikipedia

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    George Yule defines address form as a word or phrase that is used for a person to whom speaker wants to talk. [1] Address forms or address terms are social oriented and expose the social relationship of interlocutors. Maloth explains "when we address a person we should use suitable term depending on the appropriate situation where we are in". [2]

  3. Honorific - Wikipedia

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    The most common honorifics in modern English are usually placed immediately before a person's name. Honorifics used (both as style and as form of address) include, in the case of a man, "Mr." (irrespective of marital status), and, in the case of a woman, previously either of two depending on marital status: "Miss" if unmarried and "Mrs." if married, widowed, or divorced; more recently, a third ...

  4. 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.

  5. How to properly address an envelope for every occasion - AOL

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    If sending a letter to someone at a specific business, the first line should be the company's name. In the next line, follow "ATTN:" or "c/o" with the individual's name.

  6. Sir - Wikipedia

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    Sir is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages.Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "Monsieur", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English.

  7. Salutation - Wikipedia

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    Another simple but very common example of a salutation is a military salute. By saluting another rank, that person is signalling or showing his or her acknowledgement of the importance or significance of that person and his or her rank. Some greetings are considered vulgar, others "rude" and others "polite".

  8. Term of address - Wikipedia

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    Term of address may refer to: Style (form of address), an official or legally recognized form of address for a person, often used with a title; Title, one or more words used before or after a person's name; Name, a term used for identification of a person, thing, or class of things; Vocative expression, a phrase identifying the person being ...

  9. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.