First name adressing = same House?

[o_caipora]

No: HPFGUIDX 84401

"justcarol67" wrote:

> So first names don't indicate being in the same house, but they do
> indicate the speaker's attitude toward the other person--sort of 
> like the use of the familiar form of "you" in languages that 
> make that distinction.

The British use first names less than Americans do. How much less 
only a Limey could tell you. 

In Kipling's boarding-school "Stalky" stories, the masters refer to 
the boys by their last names; brothers are distinguihed by 
appending "Major" "Minor" and "Tertius". The boys refer to the 
masters by surname.

English does have a second person singular famililar form, and verbs 
even conjucate differently for it; it's "thou". 

Rarely used nowadays, of course, but it *is* there.

 - Caipora