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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good lord, what is wrong with ma’am?

It’s a polite honorific. Why are you making a big deal out of it?

If you have a problem with it then it says more about you than the word.

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Same thing with addressing to "Mrs John Smith" but everyone reallly hated that and thinks it's outdated. So, which is it? [/quote]

You are clutching it. Mrs “John” Smith hasn’t been widely used since before WWII. What changed was that Mrs. John Smith became Mrs. Jane Smith and now Ms. Jane Smith or plain Ms. Smith. I saw this in old church and community cookbooks from the 1950s. The “old” women of the time retained the Mrs John while their daughters had become Mrs. Jane, in the same cookbook! The change was because Mrs. John was based on your husband, while the Mrs. Jane or Ms. Jane is based on you. Which is fair enough.

There is nothing wrong with honorifics. Ma’am and Sir are not bad words and only denote respect and politeness. Making a big deal out of it is weird and rather selfish. Getting upset because someone is being polite to you?

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