Teachers referring to pupils by surname

[George 1978]

Interesting - do they really call Sir and Miss by their first names? Not the same thing, but I attended a drama workshop on Saturday mornings, based in a school ironically enough, and we were invited to call the tutors by the first names. It felt so strange that some had got so used to the school environment that the even called one female tutor "Miss".

And of course, shop assistants have the first name on a badge for all to see - sometimes, I think: "should I or shouldn't I?" but the fact that I don't know from Adam and perhaps never even seen them before, so it would be "I shouldn't?" Robert Crampton's Notebook column from The Times in 2007 writes about a similar experience in a hotel when he stayed in Windermere.

[80sChav]

This always reminds me of Bronson on Grange Hill tbh - though before i started Secondary School, we all knew that this was a un-written experience (though we was'nt 100% certain it was true or not), though it transpired it was of course Lol

Years later in more recent times about 5/10 years a-go an active Forum/Society I used to attend - I had a mega bust up with a fellow member who amazingly had the gaule to refer to me Surname due to a clash of policies, so I called him out on it and said "nobody referes to me proffessionaly or not like this", which riled his feathers so badly he "callecd me out" in return - eg fistycuffs!, not that thankfully he ever assaulted me