- Calling Names

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jennifer Piersol" <jenP_97 at y...> wrote:

> I call my mother's sisters Auntie, and my father's sisters Aunt.

I had an acquaintance when I lived in NYC who called her aunts on her 
father's side Aint so-and-so and her aunts on her mother's side 
Ahwnt so-and-so. Because her father came from Kentucky and her 
mother was from New England and those were the pronunciations used in 
their respective dialects (and in MY dialect, I call them Ant).

> A former teacher of mine from high school is teaching at the 
> college where my husband works.  My husband calls him Joel, but I 
> just *can't* call him anything but Mr. Wiens. 

Some friends have confided in me that they had this problem when 
promoted. Now that they were direct reports to Mr. Boss, business 
etiquette *required* them to call him Bob, which was just UNNATURAL. 

> and I said, "Usually, I just point and say 'him'."  Of course, that 
> came with another laugh.  And I never really find it necessary to 
> address him by either of his names to his face...

There are languages in which it is rude to call a person by name, 
so instead you always call them by relationship (uncle, cousin, etc) 
or 'friend', while pointing with your eyes. I heard something about 
it being rude to call people by name because you call them by name 
when putting a curse on them...