Re: Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

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On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 10:42 +0200, Karel Volný wrote:
> > I believe Adam was referring to the OP using “Gentlemen” as
> salutation.
> 
> well, it was "Gentleman!!!" actually ... so probably to one particular
> male 
> person missent to list? :-)

Yet another oddity about English is that while "Gentlemen, ..." is
correct usage in some contexts (as is "Ladies, ..."), the singular
"Gentleman, ..." is not. The proper form is "Sir, ..." (respectively,
"Madam, ...").

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming ...

poc

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