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Island Life: A simple 'your lordship' will do

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  • Shep Cheyenne,

    I don't think Dr would be used for expert witnesses but rather stating that they have a PhD, its field and their experiance in that field.

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report Reply

  • Kyle Matthews,

    The lawyer who brought the witness might use 'Dr' lots. Helps build up that impression of authority with the jury.

    "Dr Whatshisname, in your expert opinion, is the accused the only person that could have...", "Dr Whatshisname, in your extensive research in this field, is there any other explanation for..." etc.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report Reply

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    As a kiddy I had the wonderful Mrs Hundleby (not sure of spelling).
    Sometimes kiddies get confused and so I had called her, Mrs Bumblebee, Mrs Butterfly, & to my great embarrassment, Mum.

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    As a kiddy I had the wonderful Mrs Hundleby

    Shep, not June Hundleby?

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • Andrew Paul Wood,

    Protocol dictates that it is bad manners for a PhD to refer to themselves as Dr, particularly on planes or in phone books because it may be confusing in a medical emergancy.

    Christchurch • Since Jan 2007 • 175 posts Report Reply

  • Deborah,

    Whose protocol? "Doctor" was established as a title given to people of higher learning long before it was ever applied to physicians.

    And you never know when someone might be having an existential crisis in the middle of a trans-Pacific flight! :-)

    New Lynn • Since Nov 2006 • 1447 posts Report Reply

  • Deborah,

    The Wiki (of course) on the use of the title "Dr".

    New Lynn • Since Nov 2006 • 1447 posts Report Reply

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    Emma - I don't know her 1st name but Mrs Hundleby was at Riccarton Primary.

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report Reply

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    So I'm a Dr in Italy - cool.

    Of Course their is the Dr & my fave the Master:

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    Emma - I don't know her 1st name but Mrs Hundleby was at Riccarton Primary.

    That's her. She taught my kids in 2000 and 2001. She's choice.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    Andrew _ I thought it was part of the right of passage that the next phone call, after Mum, was to the Koru Club to change the title.

    Emma - Glad to hear she hasn't changed.

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report Reply

  • Amy Gale,

    FletcherB's story about Brigadier Lowe triggers a memory from Primer 1, wherein Mr Wright the Visiting Traffic Officer asked us littlies how one could tell if someone was married.

    "Because they're called 'Mr' or 'Mrs'?" I ventured.

    Nope, that wasn't it, because people could call themselves whatever they liked. Apparently, the way you could tell someone was married was that they wore a ring on this finger.

    I seem to recall that when I went home and reported this new tidbit to my parents they pointed out that people who were free to use whatever name they wanted were certainly capable of making their own jewellery decisions. Nobody ever explained to me why you would need to tell if someone was married. Especially in preference to learning how to cross the road/wear our seatbelts/etc.

    tha Ith • Since May 2007 • 471 posts Report Reply

  • Kerry Annett,

    I've been called by my first name at work since I moved to an inner city Wellington School in the mid 80s. In those days it was considered frightfully radical.

    When I left to live and teach in London 4 years later I couldn't contemplate being addressed by my students in any other way. Despite concern from the English teachers I worked alongside ("they'll never respect you!") I had no problems- well on the whole less than those around me.

    Now days only those who I taught in the first 3 years of my career greet me with an honorific. (horrible term!)

    King Kapisi always says "Hi, Miss Annett" :0)

    wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 4 posts Report Reply

  • Julie Fairey,

    A (male) friend of mine who did some supply teaching in London was constantly referred to by his intermediate-age students as "Miss". They had never had a male teacher before and thought Miss was the title you gave all teachers, regardless of gender.

    Puketapapa Mt Roskill, AK… • Since Dec 2007 • 234 posts Report Reply

  • Martha Craig,

    I went to a Steiner school as a child, and it took me YEARS to be able to use the terms "Mr" or "Mrs" after that. In fact, I still can't.

    When I book planes for the family I use my husband's academic title. It hasn't got us a decent seat yet.

    Petone • Since Nov 2006 • 23 posts Report Reply

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    It's gotta be a bit of a push & a total waste of time to go after Ms Thompson the ex-Immigration head for fiddling her quals a decade ago for a job she left years before now.

    Nothing like the PM to damn an employee hired under the Nat govt.

    Named, shamed and gone now, best let it go I recon.

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report Reply

  • Kyle Matthews,

    I suspect the PM would quite happily let it go. The Labour Ministers have been tagged with it because they were aware of it while it was being investigated and didn't intervene (apparently under legal advice).

    The fact that she was appointed (twice?) by lying about her qualifications on National's watch doesn't seem to have risen to the surface very well. I'm sure Cullen will remind everyone of that fact if he hasn't already.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report Reply

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