>Wow, don't know that I could've remembered all of that! I would probably just have used 'BOSS.' *G*

Nah, in a company of seven employees (including three self-exploiters)... c'mon. I'd feel embarrased.

>Here you seldom hear 'SIR' except in the South where I hear it all the time.

First time I heard the clerk in a grocery using that, I nearly turned around to see who's he talking to :). I was equally shocked when the cleaner ladies in school staff room asked me (in 2nd plural), "professor, would you want a coffee?"... because their kind would yell at me just months before if I showed any intention of walking over their still-wet floor. Diploma did mean something in those days...

>Children even address some of their teachers that way. I NEVER would've considered that when I was in school unless I wanted a slap across the hands with a ruler. Doesn't sound respectful to me but then I'm a transplanted Yankee...

Sounds funny to me that my daughter is mentioning her teachers, at home, as Mr McThis or Ms Thatson... because we all mentioned ours, in colloquial speak, by either their nicknames or their last names - from elementary to college. Preferrably nicknames. Then when I was teaching, I noticed that the few guys who didn't earn nicknames had trouble with their students... one had his bicycle hung high on a tree once, or welded to the fence another time (these wannabe metal workers learned their stuff right...). I never had anything happen to my bicycle, and, like I said, I had two nicknames.