# Ms. vs. Miss

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-vs-miss/502381>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 8, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-vs-miss/502381 "2009-07-08T23:59:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-vs-miss/502381/101 "2009-07-12T00:38:16Z")

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> [@liberty3701](#):
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> I’m a young married woman who kept her maiden name. I use Ms., and I know I’m not alone in that.

I’m an old married woman who kept her maiden name (what a quaint term!) and I also use Ms.

Several decades ago I worked at a place where Ms was allowed to be used only by divorced women on staff. Since I used my own name (not that of my husband) I had to refer to myself as ‘Miss’.

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