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From: "Pete Dinwoodie" <>
Subject: Re: Meaning of "Esquire"
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 22:45:14 -0400
References: <Pine.SOL.4.31.0105062200260.14245-100000@strauss.udel.edu> <3AF60860.BD35C66@ix.netcom.com>


A bit off color, perhaps, but...
In 1959 or thereabouts in Illinois, there was a teacher
who addressed all of his students as Master or Miss.
We held our collective breath as the time came to call
the roll for Arthur Bader. The instructor conferred upon
him the title of Mister and continued without pause.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Richardson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: Meaning of "Esquire"


> Crawford MacKeand wrote:
>
> > Similarly, does anyone else remember seeing mail addressed to Master
John
> > Jones?? I think that died about WW2, but it was still fairly common in
the
> > 1930s as an address for a young son, usually one under age about ten.
>
> I was taught to address mail to young boys this way, and I was raised in
the sixties. I still use "Master" this way -- call me
> old-fashioned I guess.
>
> Mary Richardson
>
>
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