AWAD is not the military or the diplomatic service, it is more like a gathering of friends toasting the English language.

When I go to court I have no qualms in addressing him or her as Your Honor, or when I go to a medical appointment I call the physician, Doctor. No problem here. But when I chat over the backyard fence with my neighbour, a highly reputed neurosurgeon, we call each other by first names. There is a time and a place...