Addressing two people in one email

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0 I need to write an email addresed to two persons. One of them is either Dr or Prof, thus I'm going to address him as "Prof Miller". The other one is a Dr, too. However, I have met him a few times already in a research group where people address each other by first names generally. Though when I occasionally bump into him, I'm not sure whether he remembers who I am or just that he has seen me somewhere already.02br02br00Thus, do I make it "Dear Mike, dear Prof Miller"? Or should I rather stick with "Dear Dr Smith, dear Prof. Miller" to be on the safe side?02br02br00Thanks for your advice.0-

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

0 Forgot to mention that the above persons are in the UK.02br
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Marvin A. · Answer

0 I would go with:02br
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00You generally would only use firstnames in the "dear X" line of a letter, for people who are married or are in the same family: e.g. "Dear Jan and Tom,"02br
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00Also, I would use the same titles for both people: Dear Dr. Smith & Dr. Miller02br
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00(You could hardly offend someone by giving them the title "Dr.", even if they don't have their doctorate.) People rarely use the title "Prof." in writing, just as you would not address a letter to an actor named John Smith as Actor Smith. You would use "Mr. Smith". "Mr." is applied to all males, and "Mrs." or "Miss" are applied to females. So you could say: "Dear Mr. Smith & Mr. Miller". You could also write out their entire names if you wished, but I would recommed against using just the first names, as you don't know whether they know each other or not.0-

Feebs11 · Answer

0 I would disagree about addressing a Professor in the UK as anything but Prof. It is an official position and should be given its correct honorific. However, only do so if you are absolutely sure that the person in question is in fact Professor.0-

Marvin A. · Answer

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01cite10Feebs1112cite10I would disagree about addressing a Professor in the UK as anything but Prof. It is an official position and should be given its correct honorific. However, only do so if you are absolutely sure that the person in question is in fact Professor.12br
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10Interesting. Over here, "professor" is mostly a spoken title, and is applied to university teachers whether or not they technically have the official position of Professor, rather than for example, Lecturer or Assistant Professor (although generally it would not not be used for teaching assistants.) It would not be used in an informal e-mail from a student to a professor. Also, over here it would be slightly offensive in a letter to write out the title of one professor, and use just the firstname of the other, rather than using Prof. for both.0-

Anonymous · Answer

Is "Mr. John and Jane Doe" appropriate?

Mango mango 429 · Answer

Is it ridiculous to just start with,

Hi Connor, Hi Shaun,

And get into the body of the email?

I feel to add 'and' between the names makes it clucky.

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