mystery letter!

Headless Rat | 12:08 Fri 01st Jul 2005 | Phrases & Sayings

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If Mrs. is the abbreviation for Missus, then where did the "r" come from?

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JudgeJ

It is actually an abbreviation for "Mistress"

Fitzer

It isn't, it's the shortening of mistress and so is missus if you see what I mean.

Fitzer

Snap!

just what i was going to say!

Oh and you didnt need to be married in eighteenth century to be called mistress - just old [or mature]

Spinsters of a certain age were called mistress - or missus....

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