using 'Miss'

[Amy Z]

Wren wrote:


> Where I live in the northeast, everyone uses first names.  Teachers 
are
> called mostly by their first name, or occaisonally Mrs. or Mr. No 
teachers
> are ever called Miss. I think the rule is that if you are old 
enough to want
> to be formal, they figure you are married. Children call their 
friends'
> parents by their first names, always

I grew up in the Northeast, and my experience was very different.  I 
had very few friends whose parents wanted to be called by their first 
names--none until I was in high school--and teachers were always 
given their titles.  We called the unmarried women teachers Miss, the 
married Mrs.

I am 32, so perhaps things have changed a lot.  

Amy Z