Title "Master" on Thai ID cards

[Flosurat]

I've been wondering for a long time why it says "Master" instead of "Mister" on my son's ID card. I've assumed it's probably another case of misspelling english words. But then on the other hand, Thai officials cannot be that dumb.

[scottiejohn]

58 minutes ago, Flosurat said:

I've been wondering for a long time why it says "Master" instead of "Mister" on my son's ID card. I've assumed it's probably another case of misspelling english words. But then on the other hand, Thai officials cannot be that dumb.

The word master is used in the UK to describe a boy!

From The Oxford English Dictionary; a title prefixed to the name of a boy.

[CMHomeboy78]

28 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

The word master is used in the UK to describe a boy!

From The Oxford English Dictionary; a title prefixed to the name of a boy.

It was the same in the USA when I was growing up in the 1950s and '60s.

I haven't heard it used for a long time... maybe it was offending some racial or ethnic group.

[lom]

40 minutes ago, CMHomeboy78 said:

I haven't heard it used for a long time... maybe it was offending some racial or ethnic group.

Indeed it did, in home showing videos they have stopped using the name Master bedroom and started calling it the Primary suite. Can't say Master anymore.

Nowadays when having two or more cpu's on a computer board it is said that they work in tandem but I think the original old description was much better - we said they worked in Master-Slave mode but that is not kosher anymore..

[georgegeorgia]

2 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

The word master is used in the UK to describe a boy!

From The Oxford English Dictionary; a title prefixed to the name of a boy.

 Scottie 

No wonder you make trips to Cambodia ,now we know why