Ma'am or Miss?

[Dr. Acula]

I call all of my female teachers Miss, regardless of whether they're married or not, just as I call all of my male teachers Sir.

I prefer people to call me by name, but if they insist on adressing me formally I'd prefer Miss. Or my lady.

[Roto13]

If I know someone isn't married, I call them "miss." If I don't know or they are married, they're "ma'am." I almost never use either of them, though.

[escobert]

Ma'am I guess

[Leen-Leen]

I call all of my female teachers Miss, regardless of whether they're married or not, just as I call all of my male teachers Sir.

Same here. I think Miss is better, though. It doesn't sound as ... old ...

[Moon Rabbits]

I refer to my teachers and friends' parents as sir and miss.

[Ouch!]

I don't really see the two as interchangable.

Let's take my Human Biology teacher, for example. She introduced herself as Miss Adams, so that is how I addess her. When I need to get her attention, I say, "Excuse me, Miss Adams," or some variation of that. When I respond, I say, "Yes, ma'am," "No, ma'am," etc.

I cannot say I know very many other people who respond that way, and I'm starting to lose the habbit, too. It's just something that was beat into my head during the year I lived in Texas. They were big on treating authoritative figures with proper respect. God help you if you simply said, "No," to answer a teacher.

[rubah]

I feel really young adult when small children call me Miss Allison

[Agent Proto]

I use both. :3 Depending on the age of the lady I am speaking to. Though, mostly ma'am.

[Yuffie514]

ma'am sounds too old. i prefer miss.

[Markus. D]

ma'am~


people don't like it when I call them that ;_;



so anyways

I chose all of them so I could build up a combo for extra damage :33