{"id":5671,"date":"2022-03-03T06:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2022-03-03T06:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:29:17","slug":"why-is-there-an-r-in-mrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-is-there-an-r-in-mrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there an R in Mrs?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. Master is someone who has control of something \u2014 someone who is in charge.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Today, this word is used in a broader sense, but once it was an honorific title, i.e., it was used for a socially superior male.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Similarly, ‘mistress’ was used to refer to a socially superior female.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. And like for master people used the abbreviation Mr, for mistress people used Mrs.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. However, Mrs could be used for both married and unmarried women.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. By the 1600s, the word mistress received some disreputable definitions.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. E.g., it was now used to mean “a woman other than his wife with whom a man has a long-lasting sexual relationship.”<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. And as the word’s association with this definition became stronger, people became uncomfortable using mistress in a positive connotation.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. They started pronouncing the-positive-connotation ‘mistress’ as ‘missus’, but the abbreviation Mrs continued (why missus was chosen is still unclear).<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. At the same time, another word \u2014 ‘miss’ \u2014 evolved to mean an unmarried woman.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. This word, till the late 1700s, was used as a title only for young girls.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. As ‘miss’ became acceptable to mean young unmarried woman, Mrs began signifying married woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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