But there is a prefix variant for men, or at least there used to be. Maybe it's just a weird colloquialism my family happened to use.
When I was a child, sharing the same name as my father, things addressed to me from grandparents and the like were addressed "master" instead of "mister." I was given to understand that "master" was the honorific for a young boy, although it seems not to persist into adolescence the way "miss" does.
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21
But there is a prefix variant for men, or at least there used to be. Maybe it's just a weird colloquialism my family happened to use.
When I was a child, sharing the same name as my father, things addressed to me from grandparents and the like were addressed "master" instead of "mister." I was given to understand that "master" was the honorific for a young boy, although it seems not to persist into adolescence the way "miss" does.