How do you define being a Snob!

My mature students called me by my forename as I did them. There's a book about adult ed called 'Teaching on Equal Terms'. One can't do that if there's some social distinction. Amusingly, when I taught O level English to RAF students, mostly NCOs, they had to be dissuaded from calling me ma'am, as if I were an officer. Informality finally triumphed. When I was teaching ESOL, my Iranian students couldn't quite stomach calling me by my forename and compromised with 'Mrs A'. Teaching teenagers, of course, was a very different matter. If you don't maintain a certain distance, there's going to be a breakdown in discipline.

You have cleaners ?

Charlotta then you should call your cleaner "Mrs X"!

No ! But I know that G and K do respect me!
They say ( I have no side to me?)
This appears to be local sign of approval.
My GP father taught me to treat all people as equal!
I have tried to always follow his example !

granbunny - you make your colleagues address you as 'mrs x'? You don't ask them then?
I agree that you should be able to choose how you are addressed, but come on, if they're colleagues, surely you could just express your preference?

Respect cannot necessarily be measured by what people call you.

Does that mean that you can't expect others to use your surname and call you Mrs X? Not even a woman who cleans for you. You have right not to be called by your Christian name if you don't like it.

chastises their cleaner for calling them by their first name? i make my colleagues address me as 'mrs *******'. i don't like too much informality!

What? You are joking! Gary (gardner) and Kate (cleaner) (married couple, ) have always called me by my first name! We also have take outs together and BBQs where Gary does the cooking and I provide all!

Someone who chastises their cleaner for calling them by their first name - this has just happened to a friend of mine! Unbelievable!

Anybody who despises another person for reasons of class, upbringing, education or money! I'm sure there are other categories!
In fact:- treat yor neighbour as yourself, unless they are antisocial!

That just about sums it up, Blue!

hmm. the most gracious are those who do not differentiate. they would not be snobs.
so, someone who treats people differently, or thinks of people differently because of their backgrounds.

Hyacinth Bouquet!

Looking down on anyone!