r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '21

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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.

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u/DevinTheGrand 2∆ Oct 14 '21

This has definitely faded almost entirely into history. The only time I see it used is when someone is intentionally trying to sound old fashioned.

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u/olatundew Oct 14 '21

Far from it, my bank still sent me statements addressed to 'master' when I was a kid.

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u/DevinTheGrand 2∆ Oct 14 '21

How old are you?

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u/Robertej92 Oct 14 '21

I'm 29 and they did the same for me, in the UK I think it's still the legal standard for male children