Relationship Hijack And Banter

All this discussion of Aunties makes me want to post this from Auntie and aunty – which is correct? | OxfordWords blog

Auntie and aunty – which is correct?
In our dictionary entry, we give auntie as the main headword, with aunty given as a variant. This is mainly because – though both are considered correct – auntie is by far the more common spelling. The Oxford English Corpus – the 2.5 billion-word database we use to research the English language – shows that auntie is more than twice as common as aunty, with 72% of examples using the -ie spelling, opposed to only 28% for the -y ending.
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Very ? how very ?
Rihana had felt a tinge of "stern" in @jayasala42 's address.

As for me, when jayasala42 does not address me as Madam at all (she does variations of Dear Madam Amulet, Dear Madam, or just Madam Amulet ....) like she had done in the most recent quote-response, I felt like I should remind her about it.

 

I generally use aunty for singular form. Aunties for plural.
So that proves I'm Indian. 77%

 

Are indians prone to confusing the connotations of Aunty (familiar woman of a certain "look") and Madam (not so familiar woman of certain "presumptive look") ?

Many (even in anglo and) latin people have a similar scheme for addressing men and women. Some use an affectionate variant of sister (or brother/uncle in the case of males).

 

Aunties come with more experience lol

 

A note on semantics.
Immigrant parents in the USA raising native-born children work very hard to teach their children that Americans are not just Blacks or Whites....., and Americans come in all shades of colors, shapes, beliefs, and weirdness.

 

Yes very much. And it is such s vague term. Or rather relative term.
Say for eg. If a 45 year old person calls my mom auntie she feels annoyed and says I'm I that old he calls me aunty? She's a grandma but that's a different thing .
If older kids , colleague's kids who are between the age 10-15 call me aunty I feel the same as my mum feels .
If a woman gets married, by default she becomes aunty. Like when I got married I was only 24. But my friends said I'm auntie by default.
Having said about aunties I remember my niece and nephews calling me Mami in my engagement and me getting annoyed for the same . For them mama's wife is Mami. Logic is correct. But for me Mami is a term used to address old and elderly ladies in the family. I failed miserably in trying to teach them to call me by my name.

 

Why can't Indians address by first name. Can add ms or mr In front of name.
Why should it be aka, aunty, Anna etc

 

Because it's Cultural here to not address someone by name. It's slowly changing.