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24 September 2008, 06:00 AM
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Ms. = "Marxist Sister"
Comment: Does MS as a title (instead of Mrs. or
Miss) stand for Marxist Sister? Or is it just (as I've always thought) a way of giving a title without including your marital status? 
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#2
24 September 2008, 11:32 AM
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 That's a new one on me. No, of course it really stands for Milking Servant, after its early use in the 1800s by Dorset Milkmaids to indicate their status to prospective husbands (yes, I have been watching Tess on the telly, why do you ask?). Or may be Mardy Singleton? Missing Squire? Minging Slapper? Mucky Shoes?
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#3
24 September 2008, 11:47 AM
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I heard somewhere that the reason that we think of milkmaids as be apple-cheeked buxom wenches is because they tended to get cowpox when milking, so they got an immunity to smallpox, so milkmaids as a group were better looking than average, as they didn't get smallpox scarring.
Anyway, everyone know "Ms" means "Miserable Spinster" - no woman without a husband could possibly be happy or self-fulfilled
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#4
24 September 2008, 04:56 PM
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No, no - "Ms." is an abbreviation for "Married? Single?" This reflects the confusion of the people who are introduced to a "Ms." and then spend the rest of the encounter trying to determine her relationship status.
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#5
24 September 2008, 04:59 PM
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That is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Real Marxists address one another as tovarishch.
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#6
24 September 2008, 05:24 PM
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- snopes
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#9
24 September 2008, 08:40 PM
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I started using "Miz" independently, based on the old Pogo comic strip, where female characters were addressed that way. I just slurred "Miss" and "Missus" into one word, and generally got away with it fine. I thought that the "Ms" convention was a darling one. Only once have I ever been scolded by someone for using it. It was such a ludricous event, I can't think back on it without wondering: how did she imagine I was supposed to be able to tell? It was in a correspondence, so I couldn't see her hands to check for a wedding band! Silas
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#10
25 September 2008, 01:27 AM
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My students kind for slur the title into mizz. I've never used it before, but now with the STBX ot of my hair, I've started using it. I'm definitely not a 'Miss' and am not going back to my maiden name, yet I am decidedly not anyone's Mrs. anymore
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#12
03 October 2008, 10:14 PM
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Wait, don't get up. I've got it. 
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#13
05 October 2008, 04:22 AM
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I was always told that "Ms." was just an abbreviation of "miss" - a young maiden. Go figure!
I'd be inclined to believe Ms. stood for "marital status", as well, though.
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#14
05 October 2008, 08:45 AM
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Silly people! Ms, pronounced miz, is short for miz-erable.
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