Pleasure was mine

[dinha]

Originally Posted by BobK

Well I thought it was short for obrigadinha (which is maybe not that common in Brasil, but I've heard it a lot in Portugal). Ah well - another promising guess...

b

hehehe, it is not common in Brasil , sometimes we say brigadinha ( women )or brigadinho ( man ) can I ask you a question ? Is there any difference when a couple´s names appear like :

Dr John Doe and Mrs Susan Doe / Dr and Mrs John Doe

Is there any difference in meaning ? like they are not a couple anymore? and if they are not which way says it ? Or there are no difference at all? Their names appeared as donnors and appeared as Dr John Doe and Mrs Susan Doe


( what did you mean by: Ah well - another promising guess...)

Thanks!

[Tdol]

To me, it doesn't imply that they're no longer a couple. I find the use of 'Mrs John Doe' rather strange, so I would either say them separately, or omit the first names.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Tdol

To me, it doesn't imply that they're no longer a couple. I find the use of 'Mrs John Doe' rather strange, so I would either say them separately, or omit the first names.

We use that in the US (with a period after "Mrs").

[Tdol]

I'm sure people in the UK would too- I was expressing a personal choice there. No need for the period in BrE.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Tdol

I'm sure people in the UK would too- I was expressing a personal choice there. No need for the period in BrE.

I can understand Mrs. John Brown more than Mrs. Mary Brown.

[Tdol]

That sounds rather old-fashioned to me.

[BobK]

Originally Posted by dinha

hehehe, it is not common in Brasil , sometimes we say brigadinha ( women )or brigadinho ( man ) can I ask you a question ? Is there any difference when a couple´s names appear like :

Dr John Doe and Mrs Susan Doe / Dr and Mrs John Doe

Is there any difference in meaning ? like they are not a couple anymore? and if they are not which way says it ? Or there are no difference at all? Their names appeared as donnors and appeared as Dr John Doe and Mrs Susan Doe


( what did you mean by: Ah well - another promising guess...)

Thanks!

If it's in a list of donors (one N), I'd think that the second one meant there was one donation - in the names of husband and wife, and that the first one suggested there were two donations - each from a personal account.

But this is only a guess. Speakers of BE used to follow the formula preferred by Mike, but the other formula - as Tdol said - is more common now; in fact, women who insist on being called 'Ms' resist it quite vocally. So, while this usage is in a state of flux, the message I get is as I've said.

b

PS -
The phrase 'another promising guess...' isn't an idiom. I was just reflecting on the fact that I had made what I thought was a good guess and that it had turned out wrong.