Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 Apollo 4/10/84; site apollo.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!wivax!apollo!alan From: alan@apollo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re-opening a can of worms Message-ID: <1fc72e42.1f5@apollo.uucp> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 13:35:48 EDT Article-I.D.: apollo.1fc72e42.1f5 Posted: Tue Jun 5 13:35:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 19:28:50 EDT Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass. Lines: 16 >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. ---------------------------------------- "A rose by any other name would still have thorns", Mh. Alan Lehotsky