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darchildre) wrote2013-02-28 01:48 pm
darchildre) wrote2013-02-28 01:48 pm
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Today, in Ridiculous Things That Frustrate Me Unduly:
There is a plural for "Mister," which I will admit to being fully pretentious* enough to use with some frequency. (With a handy abbreviation, even.) There is a plural for "Miss".
There is not, to my knowledge, a plural for "Missus". I mean, you could go with "Mesdames", I suppose, but that feels way too French.**
*Well, to me, it feels less "pretentious" than it does "having an enjoyment of words and the exactitude of using the one that means precisely what I want to say", but I'm aware that it often reads like pretension. Ah, well.
**Okay, we probably got "missus" from the French too, but that was an awfully long time ago.
There is a plural for "Mister," which I will admit to being fully pretentious* enough to use with some frequency. (With a handy abbreviation, even.) There is a plural for "Miss".
There is not, to my knowledge, a plural for "Missus". I mean, you could go with "Mesdames", I suppose, but that feels way too French.**
*Well, to me, it feels less "pretentious" than it does "having an enjoyment of words and the exactitude of using the one that means precisely what I want to say", but I'm aware that it often reads like pretension. Ah, well.
**Okay, we probably got "missus" from the French too, but that was an awfully long time ago.
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