Day: August 17, 2008

bought an Oyster card online last week, so that I was prepared when I arrived in London village later today.

The application form asked for my Title. Options were:

• Miss
• Dr
• Mr
• Mrs
• Ms
• Prof
• Other

Naturally, I selected “Other”.  But there was then no-where to enter my actual title, my “other” title.

So last week I received a letter addressed to “Other Gareth Saunders”.

While I’m here

Who on earth ordered that list?!  How about the male-centric ordering of:

• Mr
• Mrs
• Miss
• Ms
• Dr
• Prof
• Other

Or the ladies-go-first option of:

• Ms
• Miss
• Mrs
• Mr
• Dr
• Prof
• Other

Or even the mostly-alphabetical but turns out to be partly hierarchical (by placing Other at the end):

• Dr
• Miss
• Mr
• Mrs
• Ms
• Prof
• Other