# 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:** 53
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-married-women-stop-being-addressed-as-mrs-husbandsfirstname-husbandslastname/928077/53 "2020-12-19T01:20:38Z")
I still address envelopes Mr. & Mrs. Husband’sFirstName Husband’sLastName. It will often appear that way in the phone book, too - which I still use occasionally for work. In spoken address I will use Mr. & Mrs. Husband’sLastName, even if the missus kept her maiden name or did a hyphen thing. If I know the woman is married but am writing her I’ll use Mrs. First Last (missus). If I don’t know whether she is married I use Ms. First Last (miss). For a girl I’ll write out Miss. In spoken address I use Missus Lastname or Miss Lastname depending on personal knowledge of her marital status. I learned these forms in… kindergarten and first grade, I believe. This century. ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-married-women-stop-being-addressed-as-mrs-husbandsfirstname-husbandslastname/928077)._