Korean Job Discussion Forums

[john]

Mister is weird but it can be explained as Mr. .... but Mrs. ???

Please give me your explanation.

Thanks

[OiGirl]

[buddy bradley]

Missus.

Are you Russian?

[Mr. Pink]

Mrs= "taken" shop somewhere else

[Gord]

[Holyjoe]

I'll try and be a bit more helpful than Gord and tell you that Mrs is an abbreviation of mistress.

[katydid]

Mrs. is easy. Generalizing, you can say it is the title a married woman uses.

Now, how about Ms.??? I want to hear a good explanation of THAT one!!!

[mishlert]

Katyid, I tell my students that when a woman says Ms. she does not want you to know whether she is married or single.
When a student asks why, which seems to be common with Korean adults, I tell them that it was done be equal to Mr.

[Corporal]

[john]

Mrs. = Misses -- Where does the "r" come from?

Please expalin and BTW ... Gord go pound sand

[Corporal]

Mrs = Mistress (there's your R), bastardized to Missus

same same

[Gord]

[matko]

[dogbert]

Cap'n, I think the point is that when your sarcasm toward someone is based on that person's perceived lack of English ability, making up your own faux English words doesn't exactly help your case. Isn't that "obvious"?

[Gord]