[geeks] Ms., Mrs., or other?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon May 20 16:59:54 CDT 2002


On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:57:50PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:04:56PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > When writing a letter to a woman, whose marital status you are not familiar
> > with, are you supposed to default to:
> > Miss. Woman
> > Ms. Woman
> > Mrs. Woman
> 
> Dear $firstname works just fine :-)
> 
> I detest Ms, it's made-up politically-correct crap.

Dear $firstname is implies an awfully presumptuous amount of familiarity
with people who share only a single bay transaction with me.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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