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Appendix 1
Letter writing and email
Letter writing is a dying art these days, but nevertheless not yet extinct.
It has been largely replaced by email and thus later in this appendix there
is a section dealing with email in Dutch. Letter writing has become less
formal than it was previously but formal letters still have their place. The
following covers the conventions of traditional letter writing, which is not
to say that everybody observes them.
The envelope
The titles
dhr. L. Smit Mr L. Smit prof. H. Segers Prof. H. Segers
mevr. L. Smit Mrs L. Smit dr. H. Segers Dr H. Segers
mej. L. Smit Miss L. Smit drs. H. Segers (Dutch graduate
title) 1
mw. L. Smit Ms L. Smit 1 ds. H. Segers Rev. H. Segers 1
Some people object to the abbreviation dhr. and prefer to write de heer.
Mej. is no longer current for a female of any age; all women are now
addressed in correspondence as mevrouw. When addressing an envelope
or letter to a little girl or boy, as is still sometimes done with English
‘Miss’ and ‘Master’, no title at all is used in Dutch.
The title mr. before someone’s name stands for meester (in de rechten),
the title applicable to those with a degree in law and ir. stands for ingenieur,
41111 1 Ms., ds. and drs. are read out as mevrouw, dominee and doctorandus respectively.
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