Miss Manette, Miss Lucie
Hi,
I learnt that it was not usual to collocate "Miss", "Mr." etc. with the given name in English-speaking countries. I'm wondering why the man was addressing a young lady like that -Miss Lucie, which was her given name in the movie named A Tale of Two Cities.
Here's the words for the context.
Miss Manette, Miss Lucie,all this time we have had no word of what befell him after he passed through that door.
I guess Miss Manette was an appropriate, and Miss Lucie showed his emotional closeness of sympathy to the girl. He told the girl that her father was missing.
Please advise. Thank you!
Top answer
" With males, this is sometimes done today in the US. This is a kind of friendly honorific greeting. , with his last name, and you should be addressing him by his first name.
- " With males, this is sometimes done today in the US.
- This is a kind of friendly honorific greeting.
- , with his last name, and you should be addressing him by his first name.
- , with his first name, you give the greeting an honorific quality: "Mr.
- Fred!
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In the (US) South today, this is often done with females: "Honey, take the tea over to Miss Jane."
With males, this is sometimes done today in the US. This is a kind of friendly honorific greeting. You know the man too well to address him as Mr., with his last name, and you should be addressing him by his first name. But by addressing him as Mr., with his first name, you give the
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