Address Book - Title of a person is missing when entry has no first name

In Address Book - the title (prefix) of a person is missing when the contact has no first name. This is an issue both in the way that the names are displayed in the 'name' panel of Address Book, but more importantly when I print out a list of contacts if they don't have a first name it misses off their title. I need a list of all my customers printing off and also to print mailing labels for them.
Any ideas?

Welcome to Apple Discussions, Bonn.
Yes, I have the same in AddressBook in US English, if I use "prefix" for Dr.
But if I just "First Name" >> "Dr. Louis" "Last name" "Shapiro", it works fine. I never thought to use the prefix, so ignorance is bliss
You can send feedback @ Apple or file a bug report.
-mj
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