[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by memason

Did you ever notice, that when the husband talks about their friends, they are called Tom & Sue or Jerry & Kathy? ..and when the wife talks about the same couples, it's Sue & Tom and Kathy & Jerry ???

If our friends, who share an email address, send an email, I can tell who typed the email by how the names are sequenced....

Is it just me ???

Originally Posted by perrjojo

Miss Manners says the proper way to sign correspondence is to sign the other persons name first and then yours. Can't address why we say names the way we do. I guess we just say the name that is most significant to us first.

Originally Posted by Uptown Girl

If one of the couple is a blood relative, I usually refer to them first.

But sometimes a couple's names, when spoken, flow more smoothly in a certain order- like, Harold & Maude, for example. Or Liz and Dick. Samson and Delilah. "Delilah and Samson" just doesn't trip over the tongue as smoothly.

As far as personal correspondence goes, (sorry, Miss Manners!) I was always taught that the person actually doing the writing put their name before the partner. That way, my words are my own and recognized as such.

On formal correspondence ( concerning both hubby and I) I sign as Mr. and Mrs. - my husband's name first.

When I am being silly, I sign from 'him and me'. Or use something like: Mr. and Mrs. Snorklebutt, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head….. Goldy and Balthazar…..whatever. ( to be clear, those are are not our real names. HA!)

Proper etiquette sez that if you are writing/signing your name and your spouse's, the spouse's name is always written first.

On anything printed, the woman's name always comes before the man's name.
An example would be a wedding invitation, the announcement of a birth, etc.

The biggest error I see throughout TV are all the name and address signs
on lampposts where the husband's name is printed before the wife's name. Tsk, tsk, it's wrong. Ladies first!