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| 428 | Tal, Master
I was recently told that slaves called Masters "Sir" in the last book that was written. I am on book 10 so will be a while until I get there. I tried to google it with no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
Well wishes, laila
Answer
The word Sir is actually used throughout the series.
The very first time is by Tarl in Book 6.
Seeing the officer whose sword I had, I laughed and flung the weapon into the deck at his feet. "Sir," I said, "your sword."
Then I vaulted over the rail of the Rena onto the deck of the heavy-class arsenal galley.
Raiders of Gor    Book 6    Page 190
Therefore, it can be established that Goreans, in general, are familiar with the word.
The first time this title is used by a slave is in Book 10.
Against the far wall, chained by the neck, on straw, were more than a hundred slave girls. Soldiers, many drunken, sported with them. Some, holding the slaves in their left arm, forced wine from bottles down their throats. Some of the girls squirmed, eagerly, their hands on the bottles. Others, at the end of their chain and collar, on their knees, held out their hands. "Wine, Master, please!" they cried. They did not bargain, as might have a desperate free woman, "Anything for a sip of wine, Noble Sir!" for they were slave girls. Anything could, and would, be demanded of them, and for nothing. They were slave.
Tribesmen of Gor    Book 10    Page 336
The first time it is used in any meaningful way by a slave to a master is in Book 20, but she is corrected.
"Sir!" she said, frightened, stiffening.
"Sir?" I asked.
"Master!" she quickly said, correcting herself.
"You are a slave, aren't you?" I asked.
"Yes, of course!" she said.
"Of course, what?" I asked.
"Of course, Master!" she said.
Players of Gor    Book 20    Page 45
And again here.
"When you were brought in," I said, "it seems your wrists were quite tightly bound behind you, more than with the customary tightness ample to keep a female in perfect custody."
"Sir?" she asked.
"You may call me Master," I said.
"Master?" she said.
"The way you rubbed your wrists, that suggests you were not merely bound with customary tightness, but punishment bound."
"Perhaps," she said.
"Perhaps you had showed less than absolutely perfect deference to men?" I speculated.
"No, Master," she said. "I am not a fool."
Mercenaries of Gor    Book 21    Page 185
There is then this example.
"Do you beg water?" inquired one of the dock workers of a woman some places earlier on the coffle. "I am to be addressed as 'sir'."
"Yes!" she exclaimed.
"'Yes', what?" he asked.
"Yes - sir," she said.
Witness of Gor    Book 26    Page 436
But notice this, a few pages later. Which is why reading any quote in context is so important.
"But you do not address them as 'sir'?"
"No," I said. "We address them as "Master"."
"I would be terrified to do that," she said, "how it might make me feel."
"You will learn to do it," I said. "And you will also learn that it is a quite meaningful mode of address. They are the masters."
Witness of Gor    Book 26   Page 443
There is nothing within the series which would imply that Goreans slaves girls would refer to free men as anything other than master.
This rule is referred to over and over again.
The Gorean slave girl addresses all free men as "Master" and all free women as "Mistress."
Assassin of Gor    Book 5    Page 215
And finally, I don’t find the word Sir used anywhere in all of the last five Books.
So I call Shenanigans on whatever idea that person was telling you.
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