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SeekerSFN Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Addressing a young female with the word "girl?"

Is that a respecting form of address? What if I use it to greet old females?
  

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It's not a form of address at all. I mean one doesn't say eg Good morning, girl or eg Good morning, woman.. If you simply want to refer to an adult female, say 'woman'.

— Clive

  • It's not a form of address at all.
  • I mean one doesn't say eg Good morning, girl or eg Good morning, woman..
  • If you simply want to refer to an adult female, say 'woman'.
  • Say eg Most of my employees are women.
  • Clive
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It's not a form of address at all. I mean one doesn't say eg Good morning, girl or eg Good morning, woman..

If you simply want to refer to an adult female, say 'woman'.
Say eg Most of my employees are women.

Clive
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In British English, we have no word for addressing an individual person. In some languages, the equivalent of sir, madam or miss is used. These may be used by some people in the service industry, and by police and customs officers in English, but we have no general word,
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If I meet a girl and I don't know her name, I'm going to talk to her, may I call her madam or miss? As you can call an intimate person darling, honey, sweetie or dear, what I wanna know is how I should apply the same kind of thing to strangers or normal aquaintances. I guess there are some?
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Did you read my last post? "In British English, we have no word for addressing an individual person." We use nothing.
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