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an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General'
the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title
How To Use form of address In A Sentence
- The first, in slurred Spanish, kept calling me "Jefe" (chief), a distancing form of address to say the least (think of "amigo" as a way of including someone and you'll see what I mean). A small mound in Xoxo
- He still spoke her name awkwardly as if he thought it an impertinence to use so familiar a form of address. Slightly Married
- What form of address should one use when writing to a bishop?
- The form of address is a phenomenon of both language and culture.
- This is his favourite form of address. Times, Sunday Times
- What form of address should one use when writing to a bishop?
- I don't think "gaffer" fits the "respectful form of address to a professional". Languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD.
- Can anyone tell me what form of address was used in colonial Malaya for the wife of a "tuan"? Languagehat.com: MALAY PRONOUNS.
- Prudie finds that form of address OK when talking to children, or close chums, but it is rather inappropriate coming from a waiter or clerk of the court.
- Even in a formal business letter you should use a personal and human form of address.
