Names and Surnames
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#1: Names and Surnames Author: Chickpea PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:27 pm


Apologies if anyone else has brought this up and I'm boring everybody, but has anyone else noticed that for about 3 books (in the Shocks era) the mistresses refer to each other by their surnames only. A couple of books later, in CS from Kenya, EBD makes the point that the mistress are a friendly bunch and call each other by their first names.

This isn't a major thing, and I probably wouldn't have noticed except that I had a mammoth CS read-through over the weekend and the contrast between one book to the next jumps out.

*realises shes has been burbling away for ages and pulls the zip across her mouth* Wink

 


#2:  Author: KateLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:40 pm


I noticed that - and found it very strange! I don't like it when people refer to people by their last names.

 


#3:  Author: NickiLocation: New Zealand PostPosted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:45 am


Me too! I've just read those ones and it's really weird. Not at all CS. More boy's public school.

 


#4:  Author: Sarah_LLocation: Redcar PostPosted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:56 pm


I'm just reading Shocks, and it seemed to me it was just Miss Everett who used surnames. I assumed maybe she'd been brought up in a house full of boys or she was a tomboy herself.

 


#5:  Author: Chickpea PostPosted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:31 pm


Maybe - does the A-Z cover Miss E's home life? What happens to her later?

 


#6:  Author: catherineLocation: York PostPosted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:43 pm


It doesn't give that kind of detail - just an A-Z of characters, their relatives and in which books they appear, with family trees for the more prominent characters.

 




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