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Clive
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Tue, 04 Sep 07 06:48 AM
Hi,
Did you read the earlier posts in this thread about this?
Is there anything in particular that is puzzling you?
Clive
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El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo
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Anonymous,
1 yr 222 days ago
Yes, as a 21 year old or any twenty, thirty, fourty something...you will be referred to either Miss, or Ms. your preference on how you wished to be percieved. In any case of marriage, deceased or not, you then by title of law are referred to as Mrs. By order of divorce, you then are referred back into Miss, or Ms. according to your decretions. Ms. is commonly used when another person is not aware of your marital status or if you wish not to acknowledged as a 'single person".
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Grammar Geek
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Tue, 15 Apr 08 04:16 AM
 Anonymous“
Yes, as a 21 year old or any twenty, thirty, fourty something...you will be referred to either Miss, or Ms. your preference on how you wished to be percieved. In any case of marriage, deceased or not, you then by title of law are referred to as Mrs. By order of divorce, you then are referred back into Miss, or Ms. according to your decretions. Ms. is commonly used when another person is not aware of your marital status or if you wish not to acknowledged as a 'single person".
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Oh, you are so mistaken on so many levels...
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Yoong Liat
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Tue, 15 Apr 08 04:57 AM
Ms. (AmE), Mr. (AmE), Mrs. (AmE)
Ms Mr Mrs (BrE)
Miss (no period in both British and American English)
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Anonymous,
1 yr 220 days ago
Alas feminist totalitarianism rears it's extremely ugly head. Miss is for a single woman who's never married - young or old.
Anonymous,
1 yr 218 days ago
I always go by Ms (I am married). As a single woman I also referred to myself as Ms I now live in the UK and notice that Ms is used less commonly here -- more so by women with successful careers though
Anonymous,
1 yr 149 days ago
Mrs simply means, WIFE OF; that's why you can't use your first name with it or else it's gonna sound like, Wife of Eve Juan, and its awkward;unless put mrs in parenthesis, ex (Mrs) Eve Juan; not sure about this though, but i was thought this way by an english teacher in the 80s, just to indicate that you're married and i never use it that way actually, anyway Ms is the safest way to do it.
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Feebs11
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Fri, 27 Jun 08 12:51 PM
What puzzles you about them? Miss and Mrs are both abbreviations of Mistress, the former indicating unmarried status, the latter indiciating married status. Ms is a modern abbreviation of both Mrs and Miss and is used for both.
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Anonymous,
1 yr 137 days ago
I'm 27 and still a Miss- not Ms.
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