"Sir" / "Madam" / "?"

[Will_Graham]

What is an acceptable gender-neutral way of addressing someone formally and politely when you don't know them?
I mean verbally face to face, not in writing.

 

[NoloBoro]

Bros & hoes

 

[NoloBoro]

Hello?

 

[Will_Graham]

Bros & hoes

Gender neutral?

 

[Will_Graham]

Hello?

So just drop the honorific altogether?
Might be the only option.

 

[bumface]

Ow, f*ckface! Yeah, you, I'm talking to you. How the f*ck are yer?

That usually works for me.

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Well hello there…

 

[Rofesleg]

I don't think there is one.

 

[Scrote]

ere dafcun

 

[NoloBoro]

So just drop the honorific altogether?
Might be the only option.

Yes, good morning/afternoon everyone

 

[boroboy6872]

Hey, How you doin?

 

[El Guapo]

Mx (pronounced miks) apparently

 

[Anton_Berg]

'Dear Sirs' has always been gender neutral. That is, until it was politicised in the 70s.

As my boss at the time said '...even if you are writing a letter to Charlie's Angels, if it's business then 'Dear Sirs' is correct.

 

[UTB70]

Dear reader i suppose covers all bases if its a letter

 

[Caesium137]

ere dafcun

That would be informal, formal would be the more proper 'now then dafcun'.

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

If addressing someone face to face then you don't need a formal honorific do you? I can't imagine a conversation in which you wouldn't either just use their first name or say pleased to meet you, how are you, etc.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Get one of your people to arrange a formal introduction.

 

[Marvanelli]

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

Alright boss , yeah man innit !

 

[dibble]

After whats happened to Glen McCrory us men need to be very careful.