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diotima
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« on: May 01, 2007, 07:23:23 pm » |
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I always address a letter to 'Mr A and Mrs S Foody', unless Mrs Foody had told me otherwise. No-one ever has. The 'traditional' style comes from an age when women were chattels and only existed in their husband's identity. That isn't so now, and to me, addressing a woman by a form that clearly misidentifies her, is just plain wrong. I do feel strongly about this one. When I was married all our regular correspondents were instructed, if writing to us jointly, to write to us as Mr R and Mrs P, and anything else would be considered bad manners and trashed without opening. My 2p worth.
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