Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 larry 2/4/84; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!hlexa!pcl From: pcl@hlexa.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: new question Message-ID: <1640@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:05:03 EST Article-I.D.: hlexa.1640 Posted: Wed Mar 21 02:05:03 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 08:46:39 EST References: <150@homxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 19 I know that Pat addressed her query to women, but.... When I moved to New Jersey a year ago, (my first time to live in the eastern US), I also noticed being called 'hon' a lot (e.g. by sales clerks in the stores). While I know there are dialects where this is a common form of address, 1) I didn't think the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. was where these dialects lived (at least, not this far north), and 2) I thought it was only used in addressing women. (Well, I do get taken for a women on the phone sometimes, but I think in person the thick bush of hair on my face would preclude any confusion. :-) ) Paul Lustgarten AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ ihnp4!hlexa!pcl