# When did married women stop being addressed as Mrs. Husband'sFirstName Husband'sLastName? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 15, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-married-women-stop-being-addressed-as-mrs-husbandsfirstname-husbandslastname/928077 "2020-12-15T05:24:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 111
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-married-women-stop-being-addressed-as-mrs-husbandsfirstname-husbandslastname/928077/111 "2021-01-02T19:35:27Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > I assume a married woman prefers to be called Mrs (“missus”), a single woman Miss (“miss”), Why? There are large numbers of both married women and single women who prefer Ms. And no, you don’t pronounce Ms. as Miss. It’s more of a z sound than an S sound. If you’re pronouncing them the same way, then that’s a significant chunk of your problem. > [@Max\_S](#): > > “Missus” is usually pronounced with something close to a ‘z’, so it doesn’t make much sense to use “mizz” for Ms The reason it makes sense to pronounce Ms. as “mizz” is so that people can tell it apart from Miss! “Missus”, however you pronounce the middle of it, has an entire extra syllable. > [@Max\_S](#): > > ETA: I don’t have a strong accent, to my knowledge. Everybody’s got an accent. Many people don’t recognize their own, because they define it to themselves as “normal”. But it’s no more normal than any other accent, including the ones they define to themselves as “strong”; and it’s bound to sound like a strong accent to anyone who’s used to a significantly different one. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-married-women-stop-being-addressed-as-mrs-husbandsfirstname-husbandslastname/928077)._