Talk:Miss

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In the United Kingdom, Miss is often used to address female teachers without using their name, regardless of marital status.

Is "Miss" or "Ms." used alone as a term of respect in inner city regions of the US? --zandperl 20:00, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Jane Austen

Jane Austen's novels use the term "Miss" ("Miss Elizabeth Bennett"), which suggests it was in use before the Victorian era.


[edit] Citatations

Are there any citations for this article? There are a lot of claims without any support here. Dalassa 02:12, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I did some research and used Emily Post to fix up what I could. Dalassa 00:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

How do you pronounce the Russian word ""?

I've gone ahead and removed that line since it doesn't have an entry. - Dalassa 23:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality

This article gives the impression that "Miss" is no longer used. While usage has diminished, it still remains in use. Any opinions? 172.162.129.51 03:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

This article gives examples of where both Miss is and isn't currently used. So I don't see where is says the term is no longer in use.Dalassa 20:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Well since no one has responded to my points about neutrality I am going to go ahead and pull the tag from the article. Dalassa 01:30, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current usage of Miss restored

As per note above, this article once gave the inaccurate impression that Miss was no longer in use. Part of the remedy to that is providing examples of usage of Miss. The paragraph that was removed gives three such examples.

  1. Miss Jones, a particular individual, sufficiently well known to have a Wiki entry.
  2. An example of a formal setting from a very recent film.
  3. Finally, it points to the wide practice of collecting preference for title from people via forms in hard copy or electronic.

Here is an example application form.

Please feel free to add to the examples, especially if there is some means of verifying them. If you can think of other examples that are common knowledge, like the application forms, I won't revert you just because you haven't made an arbitrary selection of source for common practice. However, you will be at risk from those who take offence at others using the title Miss.

Arguably it is worth discussing the fact that some do argue that women should not be allowed to use the term Miss, because in their perception this is sexist. Personally, I find it hard to see that removing a liberty constitutes freedom, but it is a subtle question.

Finally, regarding the edit note suggesting that three examples of usage of Miss were irrelevant and should be included at Ms. I need the logic spelled out more clearly for me. I would have thought that examples of usage of Miss belonged at Miss, rather than Ms. Alastair Haines (talk) 04:13, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plural

The plural of mister is messrs. What is the plural of miss? --Camaeron (talk) 20:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)