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This article explains the origins of title and debunks the fact that Mrs. Is just about marital status.


It appears that it's a fairly recent use as a marital prefix and previously Mistress, Mrs and Miss were interchangeable and restricted to the upper class. Quite a fascinating subject you've raised and being called Mrs. Puts you in the upper class bracket 😱


https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mistress-miss-mrs-or-ms-untangling-the-shifting-history-of-titles

Spartacus Wrote:

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> Sue

> This article explains the origins of title and

> debunks the fact that Mrs. Is just about marital

> status.

>

> It appears that it's a fairly recent use as a

> marital prefix and previously Mistress, Mrs and

> Miss were interchangeable and restricted to the

> upper class. Quite a fascinating subject you've

> raised and being called Mrs. Puts you in the upper

> class bracket 😱

>

> https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mistress-miss-

> mrs-or-ms-untangling-the-shifting-history-of-title

> s


Fascinating it may well be, but I was referring to its use in present times 🙂

Have we had "like" yet? Not: I like going to the cinema. But, like, like, people who like, can't even like get to, like, even like the end of like just a like sentence without like saying the word "like" like so many times?
  • 2 weeks later...

Holidays for the period over Christmas


Imported from the good old US of A where they have a holiday for thanksgiving and another for Christmas day (hence the word holiday becoming plural)


It's especially noticeable in big corporation adverts (just for the heck of it 😱)

The Christian holiday of Christmas generally overlaps with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, hence the more inclusive Happy Holidays. Nothing to do with Thanksgiving.


🎶?Monica, Monica have a happy Hanukkah?🎵🎵

Jenijenjen Wrote:

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> The Christian holiday of Christmas generally

> overlaps with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah,

> hence the more inclusive Happy Holidays. Nothing

> to do with Thanksgiving.

>

> 🎶?Monica, Monica have a happy

> Hanukkah?🎵🎵


Whilst Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday, it's not a national holiday so thanksgiving , Christmas day are the chief drivers and Hanukkah is possibly also thrown into the mix in America


Over here we class it as the Christmas holiday and not the oh so American expression of Holidays

ed_pete Wrote:

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> Increasingly the people I work with like to

> "opine". Ugh.



Did they all read Biggles books when they were young?


He was always opining or similar. He never actually just "said" anything ....

Sue Wrote:

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> ed_pete Wrote:

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> > Increasingly the people I work with like to

> > "opine". Ugh.

>

>

> Did they all read Biggles books when they were

> young?

>

> He was always opining or similar. He never

> actually just "said" anything ....

Well it was started by someone who would fit that mould.

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