Originally Posted by
kerouac2
I remember when boys were addressed as Master when they had not yet reached the age of being Mister.
In an etiquette book my mother had it said boys are "Master" until age 7. It does seem odd to think of addressing a 9 or 10 year old boy as "Mister" but not odd to address a 9 or 10 year girl as "Miss".
And to go utterly OT from the etiquette of address, could one of the French speakers here tell me how one would say "Get lost!" in French? I'm a writer working on a project set in Paris and I think Google translate's suggestion is failing to catch the nuances of what I need: think hoodlum telling someone annoying him to scram.