alan@apollo.UUCP (06/05/84)
>From "The Devil's Dictionary", by Ambrose Bierce...
MISS, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate
that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister(Mr.)
are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language,
in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other
of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our
country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have
them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I
venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
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"A rose by any other name would still have thorns",
Mh. Alan Lehotsky