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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
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 02:05:03 1984
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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
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