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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Miss/Mrs/Ms
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Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 15:53:10 EDT
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RE: Master/Mister

OK Dave, I looked up 'master' in the dictionary (Webster's
New Collegiate), and it says:

...3 a (1) *archaic* : MR. (2): a youth or boy too young
to be called *mister* ---used as a title  ...

My idea was to revive this word and use it as a male equivalent
to 'Miss', that is, an unmarried male. (This would require
eliminating the age distinction.) 'Mr' could then be used
for married males, equivalent to 'Mrs'.

One slight problem, definition 2 f (1) *dial* : HUSBAND

oh well...

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I have received some replies to my article, and a related topic
has come up.  Lately it has become popular for women to keep
their maiden name upon marriage.  Another option is the
hyphenated name.  Let's get some discussion going on the
pros/cons of these options.  I don't personally know of any
cases where the guy changed his name to match hers, but that's
one more possibility.

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It was also pointed out that I misspelled 'reviel', should be 'reveal'.
Sorry, but the 'spelltell' program didn't know how to spell it either,
and I didn't have a dictionary.

				'Herr' David A. Seifert
				ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert