Regarding titles such as the Dutch ‘mr.’, in her book Righting English that’s gone Dutch, Joy Burrough-Boenisch says: ‘The potential for misinterpretation is sufficient reason for avoiding such Dutch titles in English texts..... A more valid reason is that in English it is not conventional to address academics by the name of their degree - unless the degree is a doctorate’ and ‘Remember that in English the only titles used are Professor (or its abbreviation Prof.) and Dr. - never used together for one person.’
(‘Righting English that’s gone Dutch’, by Joy Burrough-Boenisch)
English
Dutch
- meester in de rechten
- meester
- mr.
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