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All bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.


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2 Responses to “All bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.”

Comment from Linda Welch
Time April 25, 2011 at 4:01 pm

If so, then all unmarried females should be addressed as MADAM, not Miss.

Comment from Cameron billingsley
Time September 27, 2011 at 11:19 pm

Yeah not so much true or pertinent there linda.

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