But we’re not talking about names, are we? We’re talking about titles. I have no problem in using his name but I’ll be damned if I’m going to attach
the handle to it when I speak to him. Perhaps he’d like me to tug my forelock as I speak too.
My wife’s family is Southern and non-military, and they do this. Not all the time; most of the time they’re Mom and Dad, and “yes, sir,” or “yes, ma’am,” is just kind of a respectful emphasis. Underlying it, I think, is a notion that the child should be as courteous to people within the home as he or she would be expected to be to others, and occasionally that calls for sir or ma’am. FWIW, they’re as loving and close a family as ever I’ve seen.
Also, let’s remember that Mom and Dad are themselves titles. Most parents don’t raise their children to address them by their first names.
The google ad on page 2 is offering to sell me a lordship, barony or knighthood. :dubious:
You could then be “Really Not All That Knight.”
Sir Really to my friends.
And Not All That Bright to your enemies? 
OK then. He comes from a culture which doesn’t “recognise” the title “Mr.” and insists on calling you “Miss”. He’s then doing exactly what you’re doing: meeting someone from a culture with a different range of titles than his own, but insisting on using his own range. Would you consider him rude?
What would you do if you met the Queen? Call her “Mrs. Windsor”?
I’d call her Ma’am, which just happens to be the correct thing to do. That’s fine, but ‘highness’, ‘majesty’? I really couldn’t keep a straight face, they sound so silly. Good morning, Your Altitude.
Aux lanternes with the whole pack of them. Cromwell rid us of them once. We were fools to bring them back.
Kingsley has been criticized by fellow knights as well as holders of more lofty titles for his attitude.
Although I’ve seen this done by the uninformed, up to and including at least some professional newswriters, it’s clearly never appropriate to address him as Sir Buchanan-Riddell. When you are first introduced to a knight or baronet, you’re supposed to address him as Sir Firstname, as in your example. Eventually if you become on friendly terms you just call him Firstname. But back in the day when friends and business associates often addressed each other by surnames, would you go from calling him Sir John to just John, or would there be an intermediate phase of calling him Buchanan-Riddell?
Isn’t “Sir” appropriate for any man under formal circumstances, at least among presumed equals? I thought these days any man by default is assumed to be a gentleman–so Sir would be correct for anyone except the holder of a Peerage title (whether by right or courtesy).
Clearly he was vexed at being passed over in last January’s Honours List.