It depends on the person, but using "sir" for women (a title of honour for men) is very rude.
人にもよるけど、女性に対して「サー」（男性への敬称）を使うことは、とても失礼なことです。
Do you think real neurotics really go and call themselves such?
本物のノイローゼの奴がノイローゼだなんて自称するのかね？
I congratulate him, I congratulate Governor Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.
It's not immoral for a novelist to tell lies. In fact, the bigger the lies, the better lies, and the more the common folks and critics will praise you.
Up till now America has called itself the world's police and continued suppression relying on military force.
これまでアメリカは世界の警察と称して武力に頼った鎮圧を続けてきました。
I call architecture frozen music.
私は建築を凍結した音楽と称する。
General Franks received an honorary knighthood.
フランクス陸軍大将がナイト爵位の名誉称号を授かりました。
The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather.
父の父は祖父、祖父の父は曽祖父、曽祖父の父は高祖父だが、高祖父より前の世代の呼称は決まっていない。
There were many journalists who praised Ogawa with, "bravo, good show!"
「お見事、よくやった」と小川選手を褒め称える報道が多かった。
Everyone who knew him admired him.
彼を知っているものは皆彼を称賛した。
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
神を称え、武器を配置せよ。
This verb is normally used only in the third person.
この動詞は普通、3人称でのみ使われます。
The separate names used for female nurses "kangofu" and male nurses "kangoshi", were unified in 2002 into "kangoshi".
Did you know that, in French, one doesn't hear the difference between "the symmetry" and "the asymmetry"?
知っていたかね、フランス語では「対称」と「非対称」で発音の区別が付かないそうだ。
Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.
