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Welcome to another summer mini-cast from Away With Words. I'm Grand Parrot.

We are working all summer to prepare for a new season of brand new shows in the fall,

but in the meantime we're offering you some great calls that we weren't able to squeeze into past

episodes. Some of the calls we get are not just about grammar or usage, but overlap

into etiquette and rules of civility. For example, when my wife and I were married, she kept her name since she

and her grandfather are the last two people in her family line to still have it. So we get a lot

of letters addressed wrongly to Sarah Barrett or to Mr. and Mrs. Grant Barrett, even from people who know that she kept her last name.

One of our listeners, Emily in San Diego, has the same dilemma.

She's a modern woman and she's bothered by the convention of addressing envelopes to Mr and Mrs.

John Smith.

Shouldn't we also address the woman by first name? See what you think?

So I work for a large nonprofit that works on behalf of the elderly.

And I work in the development department,

so I write a lot of letters to donors.

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