[Sigia-l] What do you call Mr Miss Ms

alfred alfred at thunderstick.com
Mon Feb 24 12:35:42 EST 2003


I think standard usage - particularly on HTML forms and bingo cards, has
lumped these as salutations.

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Mike Sullivan wrote:

> The Chicago Manual of Style calls these "social titles", FWIW.
>
> Jesse James Garrett wrote:
>
> > The American Heritage dictionary refers to Mr./Mrs./Ms. as "courtesy
> > titles"; Merriam-Webster uses the slightly more awkward "conventional
> > titles of courtesy".
> >
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