Is The Use Of "mr." Correct In This Article?

[Batchellor]

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/16854150.13-year-old-taking-part-young-driver-challenge-2018/?ref=twtrec

[ummmm]

Why not?

[dannyk13]

No,Mister is usually for an adult .

[sandyRoe]

Would Master be more fitting or is that old fashioned now?

[ummmm]

My nan always referred to my sons as 'master'

[AuntLydia]

no - if they are going to use formal address it should be 'Master' (Mstr.) At eighteen ( used to be 21) he would be addresses as 'Mister' (Mr.)

[Tilly2]

'Ben' might have been better all round.

[Zacs-Master]

I think it’s being used to infer that the young lad is doing something quite grown-up. Sometimes the rules can be bent.

[AuntLydia]

It just sounds silly to me. His first name would have been the most appropriate. I find regional journalism abysmal to be honest, some of the reporters can't even get the spelling of local places right, and their grammar is terrible.

[Tilly2]

Good luck to him anyway.

[Peter Pedant]

// Would Master be more fitting or is that old fashioned now?//
not heard it for fifty yearn gone by.....

Mr I think is a default - and of course titles change uses in time
there are no real alternatives - Mstr - (hahaha havent seen that written since I was five) - and you cant just use the surname or 'boy'

The French have officially abandoned Mamzell - they have a language police.

There are six in Vietnamese. My niece went up from "scatty teenager" to "responsble teenager" we thought because she was leading me around. I was always an 'Ong' ( old fool)

[Peter Pedant]

When my teacher Mrs Penman as caught drink driving - much much later like 20 y
she objected to the Bridport news referring her in court as
" The woman, Penman...."
loudly, afterwards, everywhere

[Zacs-Master]

By the way, how do you spell Batchelor. Oops looks like I did it. ;-)

[Jackdaw33]

If you are talking about a tin of peas then your spelling is correct. If your a talking about an unmarried man or a university graduate then it is bachelor.

[Zacs-Master]

Not double ‘l’ tho, is it.

[dannyk13]

Does it really matter how the OP spells his username.

[Zacs-Master]

It does if you’re criticising the use of the English language. Yes yes yes, I know it might be their name. I just thought it rather ironic.

[Jackdaw33]

No. The word derives from the Latin baccalaureus. B.A. = baccalaureus artium= bachelor of arts.

[cassa333]

Perhaps Batchellor is an amalgamation of two different names stuck together to make a user name.

Just for clarity my name isn’t Cassa.

[cassa333]

I would have said ‘young Ben’ and not used Mr. That is a title that should be used for adults not children.

But at the end of the day grammar and the right words mean so little nowadays. I think the population will sink to text speak in normal everyday writing soon and it will transpire that only the legal profession still use it to flummoxe the population. Lol

[murraymints]

no business being in a car ! what on earth is going on