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cheesecakegood • today at 1:37 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I always thought that it was Mrs. = missus, Ms. = miz, at least that’s how I would say them, but I now realize that a) that’s plainly incorrect and b) I’ve never actually ever seen them non-abbreviated.

If an abbreviation is never expanded, is it still an abbreviation? Personally I think it isn’t; I advocate for condensing i.e./e.g. to simply ie and eg, though this is a minority opinion.


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hammock • today at 2:12 AM

Missus is a contraction of mistress (the feminine form of master/mister)