Pretension and titles Options

[Mata]

A producer at work, in an email that was cc'd to several other very important people, was passing some work on to me. In the email he referred to me as 'Mr. Haggis'. I didn't say anything, but I felt very tempted to correct him to point out that it's 'Dr. Haggis'.

I couldn't decide how to say this without sounding like a really arrogant pillock, which is mostly why I didn't say anything, but it does bug me when people don't use my correct title. I worked damn hard to get that and I'd prefer that people use it. He didn't mean any harm by what he typed, so am I wrong to get a little miffed about this or should I have said something? If so, how are should I have said 'Oi! It's 'doctor'!' without making myself look bad? I realise it would have to be done with humour, but I couldn't think of a way in which the humour wouldn't come across as thinly veiled prentension.

[Phyllis]

Huh. I knew that the dentists here aren't (usually) doctors, but I had no idea about the medical doctors. Weirdos!

Miss Manners is American, so it makes sense that some of her advice doesn't apply over here. If you were an American PhD I would urge you to not use the Dr title, but it seems to be generally more accepted here. Whee, cultural differences. Miss Manners probably still wouldn't approve, but we just won't tell her.