Post A1LYTy80LsbfJ7cf7A by leeb@mastodon.technology
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 (DIR) Post #A1LUCHyZQ5gZpqWXWS by alrs@lsngl.us
       2020-11-19T05:02:07Z
       
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       When I was a little kid in the late '70s my grandmother addressed my holiday cards to "Master Lars Lehtonen."
       
 (DIR) Post #A1LYTy80LsbfJ7cf7A by leeb@mastodon.technology
       2020-11-19T05:50:05Z
       
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       @alrs I too used to receive the 'Master' salutation in the late 70s from my grandmother. I wonder what the common factor is? Late 70s? Grandmothers? Grandmothers in the late 70s?I should check with my sister to see if she still did it with her kids. But that would be with her as a great-grandmother, and no longer in the 70s, so...
       
 (DIR) Post #A1LhPlrutDaViMAe4O by valhalla@social.gl-como.it
       2020-11-19T07:24:03Z
       
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       is that master as the variant of mister used for boys? I knew it was a thing in the 1800 / early 1900, I didn't know it survived (to some extent) in the 1970s, cool!