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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
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Subject: Re: MS/Miss/Mrs.
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> It would be very nice if we just got an all-purpose honorific, and could
> dispense with this whole nonsense.
> 
> --Lee Gold

Why not just leave those controversial letters ``s' and ``r'' off, and
use the initial ``M''?  Thus:

	M Alice Gardner    instead of Miss, Mrs, or Ms Alice Gardner
	M Alexander Foop   instead of Mr Alexander Foop

And in conversation, ``M'' would be pronounced ``missed''.

:-)     :-)     :-)

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall

P.S. I generally dispense with the horrific honorific altogether; first
and last name suffice in cases where ``hey, you!'' doesn't work.