Mr And Mrs Or Mrs And Mr

Is the abbreviation for mistress a word that once mainly referred to the female head of a.

Comes from middle english where it was the abbreviation of maister meaning master master was the original preferred title for young unmarried men and mister was specific to those who were married until the former fell out of use and the latter came to apply to both. It wasn t much of a step to go from miss mrs to ms. In most commonwealth countries a full stop period is usually not used. American english or mrs british english.

After all the issue should be that gender is unimportant. Has been in use since the fifteenth century it is a variant of the word master. And mrs are the proper ways to address men and women beneath the surface of these everyday honorifics lies a linguistic glitch though. While we re at it let s get rid of all this miss mrs mr ms crap.

Where did mister and missus come from. Is an abbreviation for the word missus it is pronounced like the word missus. Master is still occasionally used as a title for a boy there is no abbreviation. In the old days it was mr.

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History and etiquette tell us that mister and missus known by the contractions mr. Insert man s first and last name here. Is a title used before a surname or full name of a married female. British titles do not include a period after.

Now either one is correct. If you don t want to offend anyone take the time to understand the differences between titles and how to use them. Is used but mrs. American titles include periods after.