> Hm. Weird. Never seen that before. Let's check the source, emilypost.com

This is taught to children in the United States. I didn't go to an especially good school and I remember it to this day. If you're not from the US the custom may be different.

Perhaps you will consider the advice from Grammarly [0] as a more acceptable source.

[0] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/ms-mr...

I think they were referring to Mx, which is hilarious!

> This is taught to children in the United States.

No doubt, in today's absurdly woke school system.

I learned this as a child in elementary school in the 90s in a mostly blue collar area of Long Island. This is not some new woke thing.

Primary school in the UK, I had a teacher who went by Ms. and was married.

How does one pronounce Mx?

Mail eXchanger

this is the way

Just for the record!

"Mexico"

It's Mexic@

Start by learning to pronounce Mister Mxyzptlk from the Superman comics.

I've generally heard it pronounced like the word "mix".

Mexter

"mixter"

You're out because you don't think non-binary people are real and you can't imagine a situation where you'd want an ambiguous honorific?

No. He's out because he works in a professional environment and knows that the statement that Mx is a universal title that can be used with anyone is untrue. In the vast majority of workplaces in the world, you'd get a weird look for calling somebody with an obvious gender identity Mx.

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Yes, I work in a workplace, so I've experienced people using personal titles first-hand. I've also read some studies about neo-pronouns and neo-titles, yes. Their prevalence is generally measured as being quite low.

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There is man,

there is woman,

and there is Klinefelter's.

(worth the karma hit)

The source discredits itself by claiming Mx is some sort of conventional title

Sir this is not an airport, you don’t need to announce your departure

Your reddit is leaking.

And you’re nonethewiser.

You've never seen Ms. before? This isn't some 2020s invention. My high school teachers went by Ms. in the nineties. Ms. Magazine is from 1972.

For married women no. Where did you go to high school?

Yes, for married women.

Miss indicated that a woman was unmarried. Mrs indicated that she was. Ms was added to behave like Mr in that it doesn't indicate marital status.

Isn't Ms just a contraction of Miss? I've never heard of a distinction between the two.

They're distinct in American English.

Is it a regional thing? I've lived in the Midwest mostly and never heard of this.

I don't think so. In the UK the default is also Ms unless a preference has been expressed for Miss/Mrs.

Especially in a business context, it would be unprofessional to ask if a woman is married or not merely for determining which title to use. Unless you want to have an affair with her, of course.

I've always used Miss as the default when I don't know. Maybe everyone else has been using Mizz and I just didn't hear the difference.

No, there is no contraction of Miss and no expansion of Ms. (which is pronounced “mizz”).

Does it stand for something? Just it stand for Mizz?

It was invented to hide the distinction between married and single women. How do you know all the women you’ve met as Ms X are single?

What do you think the word invented means

Do you think words are naturally occurring?

We were taught to use Mrs. unconditionally, and it was explained as a modern PC-rooted shift in formal written English. This was 30+ years ago.

Like latinx, a straight insult for us latinos.

I semi seriously suggest we come up with neologisms to avoid gendered forms of address. We could take from Morrowind and replace Mr/Ms/sir/ma’am with “muthsera”.

Yes, what could be more offensive than someone noticing your gender.

Oh my God are native English speakers okay?? Ms. is not miss it's pronounced like "miz" and it's always been a convention to refer to women with their full or last name regardless of marriage state. Mx is just a gender neutral honorific for full or last names.

Look, if you want to learn about social cues you’re going to have to draw from experience instead of links from the internet. Experience interacting with women will quickly teach you that Ms. is the safest option, if not preferred.