To correct this?

[TrainsandDiggers]

If your title was Dr and your child’s teacher kept referring to you as Mrs (a fair enough assumption on their part), would you correct them? And if you did, would you sound like you’re a bit up yourself? I’m aware of people correcting to Ms, Miss or Mrs, but not to anything else. TIA

Why is Ms superfluous?

Because Miss (in mine and many other cases) does not signify spinster of this parish.

"Because Miss (in mine and many other cases) does not signify spinster of this parish."
But that's what Miss means-a title for an unmarried woman-and Mrs for a married one. That's what the words mean..

I’m Miss, I am unmarried and I am happy about that.

I don’t think Ms is superfluous though.

If you divorce will you undoublebarrel the DC? Seems a bit arbitrary to change DC's surnames based on the marital status of the parents.

Because Miss (in mine and many other cases) does not signify spinster

As Bertrand says howabout, the title "Miss" means exactly this

Do you not think that by expecting to be called Dr in a classroom setting might confuse the children ? In most cases they will just see you as Miss regardless of marital .net come to that professional status.

A title prefixed to the name of an unmarried woman or girl, or to that of a married woman retaining her maiden name for professional purposes.

Actually this is what Miss means.

That's interesting yetalkshite
I can remember actresses in my youth being referred to as Miss ....despite being married but haven't come across it in any other context.
Where is that definition from? I don't have a dictionary to hand and my online search comes up with the definition of unmarried woman or girl.

“Dr. only in professional capacity. When out and about Jane Doe. Regardless of what type of doctorate degree.”

Agree. I have a friend who insists on her title being used even in the most irrelevant circumstances, and I find it grating.

I think it's important for the kids to know that women can be doctors too! If you ask a class to draw a doctor most will draw a man, same for scientist or chef.

MrBirlingsAwfulWife it was down the bottom of the Oxford English Dictionary definition.

I would correct the teacher if they got my title wrong, in the same way I’d correct them if they got my first or second name wrong. If the teacher I’d choosing to use your title then it should be right. I wouldn’t consider a correction unreasonable.

Thanks

*is choosing

I am a medical doctor, but I rarely use the title. Even at work I introduce myself as "hi I'm (first name), I'm one of the children's doctors". I write it on my referral letters etc but rarely call myself it. I never ever get called Dr last name. In fact the only place I do is my children's school. I find it intensely embarrassing, I asked them to call me by first name but they refused! I think I see it as a police officer might use d.c or something, seems wrong outside of work!

However,. The day we all passed our exams we went around calling each other Dr soandso for about a week... Like in the post office, in our PJ's on the sofa etc....we were right knobheads!

I have been called miss ex husbands surname for the last 10 years. I can't be bothered to correct them now. Even my dh gets called Mr my ex husbands name and he can't be arsed either lol.

Electric I did not know that.

Exactly so yetalkshite

Majority of Drs round our way are female, especially GPs and children's, so doubt the assumption children think of it as a male job these days.

I think someone asking others to call them "Dr XX" (regardless of sex) outside of any professional capacity just seems like you're expecting them to suddenly hold you in higher regard. I think it would make you come across as a knob sorry OP.

I only correct people when they refer to my husband and I as “Dr and Mrs Splodge” because if they can remember he Is a Dr they should be able to remember I am one as well, but that’s because of sexism rather than a desire to be called Dr out of work (I don’t want to know all about your kids latest sniffle or see the rash on your foot!). The worst for the “Dr and Mrs” were LLoyds bank who would never correct it.

Actually there was one worse showing the there is sexism involved, we had the chance to go to a fancy ball where you are “announced” and this was before DH qualified and so was Dr and He was Mr and despite telling them this we were announced as “Dr and Mrs” then .....