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Chinjut • today at 3:57 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

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.


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nonethewiser • today at 4:23 AM

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

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eps • today at 8:17 AM

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.