• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Using “sir” and “ma’am” was my way of addressing instructors in engineering school, because the faculty was so diverse that I would otherwise butcher their names.

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      12 hours ago

      And that’s why everybody gets to be “Dr. B.” to me. There’s no way I can pronounce that foreign name!