The man said to me, Is you 'Miss,' 'Mrs.,' or 'Mr.'?
Along with all the usual reasons--such as wanting to follow up on a particular piece of research--the book lists 'problematic' reasons, such as 'because everybody expects you to do a doctorate' and 'so as not to continue being Miss, Mrs or Ms' (which I actually find to be one of the bonuses of having a PhD).
The most common title to add to a name is "San," which can be roughly translated to "Mr"., "Miss", "Mrs"., or "Ms".
Of the 2,240 ischemic stroke patients alive 3-months after hospital discharge we excluded those patients missing mRS at 3-months (n = 117 follow-up not done and n = 31 missing mRS at 3-months) or SES information at baseline (n = 127).
"You know what I'll miss?" Mrs. Altschuler, 58, asked.
The Associated Press, reflecting the desire of the great majority of its newspaper members, has just dropped the use of the courtesy titles Miss, Mrs. and Ms. in its news reports.
When she got her first office job in 1945, people addressed one another as Miss, Mrs. or Mr., the latest high-technology office tool was the Addressograph machine and bosses sent employees home early if the thermometer rose above 90 degrees because there was no air-conditioning.
Is it a Miss, Mrs. Ms, Mr, Sir, Madam, or just their first name?
Mentions Mrs. John G. Winchester Mrs. Blake L. Lawrence, Mrs. John D.W. Churchill, Mrs. Donald B. Str aus, Mrs. Henry L. Pierson, Mrs. Stephen M. Etnier, Miss Elizabeth Hall, Mrs. Charles Burlingham, Mrs. Grafton Pyne, Mrs. O'Donnell Iselin, Dr. PP. Pirone, E.J. Alexander P.J. van Melle, James B. Jack, Alfred A. Cook, T.H. Everett.
It was our way, in the days of Shawn, to give all living female authors the courtesy of a Miss or Mrs. (Mrs. Spark, Miss Murdoch) but I am happy to go with the new ways if it seems important.
Once a pupil asked a question and our teacher said, 'I am a miss, not a mrs, and therefore I am in no position to answer that question!' And that was that".
