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Originally Posted by merlinmaxwell
You can't allow one's housemaids taking too much juice! What is a male housemaid called?
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"Jeeves"?
It was always considered "Non-U" to call servants by either their first-names or their occupations: John Betjeman's "How to get on in Society"
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...eman/poems/785
being a great pastiche of this. Irrespective of their actual name my mother always called the cleaner/cook/laundrymaid "Miss Jones" because that was the name of said functionary she remembered from her girlhood growing up on the Wales/Shropshire borders.