Are you a Ms, a Mrs or a Miss?

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I'm a Ms, cos I'm not married and am far too old to be a Miss.

I remember the day I made the decision to be a Ms. Was in the late 80s, I was a teenager and my dad, who worked for a bank, told me that they were recruiting, and that any CVs that had 'Ms' on them were automatically binned. I was and decided then I was a) going to be a Ms and b) was never going to work in a bank. Oh and I didn't speak to him for the rest of the day

Misty sounds nice

Stalker overtones from 'Play Misty for me'

Ms, I am divorced and don't awant to be reffered to as married!

I am usually just 'first name' now though,very rarely use surname

I am a Mrs and use dh's surname, never occurred to me to do anything different. My married name is a lot shorter than my maiden name so it makes filling in forms a bit quicker.

Just a slightly related anecdote - a school friend of mine lived with her mum and step-dad, she, quite rightly, had her dad's name. After a parent's evening the step-dad was fuming as he was referred to as Mr friend's-dad's-name all evening. He was really cross until it was pointed out that a) how were the teacher's supposed to know differently if no-one told them and b) now he knew what countless women go thru on a daily basis. He was more careful when meeting new people after that.

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I'm a Ms, married but kept my 'maiden' name (now there's an archaic phrase...), but prefer to introduce myself as firstname lastname. Would prefer to do away with all titles apart from those such as Dr, Rev, Prof etc (which in any case aren't gender specific).

Oh, and contrary to the article, I'm under 30 (just about)

I'm a Dr. which solves the problem rather nicely I've always thought

jabberwocky being a Dr is great way to solve the dilemma, ooh would love to be Dr.

I'm a Ms too (Miss to me = littel girl or elderly lady) but like MaeWest I don't see the need for a title at all on forms. You tick sex so why can;t they address you as Sir or madam?

before i was married i was a ms, after a mrs, now i am separated i am halfway between both, depending on how up to date various records are

Been a Ms since college at 18, I got a dose of feminism and thought "shy should my title be detirmined by my relationship to men (sisters)'

When I got hitched, DH was in a bad mood 2 days later and refused to see my joy in being 'Mrs DH' so I double barrelled his name onto my madien surname. Plus i was still at uni so I didn't want any confusion IYKWIM

When DS was born he was officially 'Baby Hyphenated' but I didn't want to saddle him with that so I dropped my maiden name rather than having 1 family with 2 surnames...I didn't take the title 'Mrs H' as that's my MIL init.

I'm Dr but feel a bit poncey putting that on something like an internet shop. Use Ms usually, but can't get upset over Mrs. Have dh's surname, as I couldn't face the whole double barrelled mallarkey and wanted my family to have the same name. Having already had my surname changed from my mother's to my father's on adoption I am about how keeping that name would have been any closer to feminist principles anyway...

mrs, but i'd prefer to be referred to as m'lady

It depends, if it is informal and im not asked then its my first name, if i am asked, then Ms (only because Miss sounds like a young wee thing and i used to like to sound grown up) but if someone is irritating and patronising towards me, then actually, its Dr. Now i quite fancy being called Miss again though.

Mrs. Could be Dr, but don't want to know about casual acquaintances insides . Expressed that view to DH's aunt, another non-medical doctor, who told me she loved being mistaken for a medic, and had delivered a baby in Africa .

Mrs and i love beng Mrs. i am proud to me a MRS and femenists can kiss my arse

custardo, if i were married i would be proud to be called Mrs too. No one will marry me though (thats why i did my phd, so i didnt have to go to my grave a miss, no really i did)

Well, I'm certainly not ashamed of being married, but I'm not exactly proud of it either.

My MIL always says I should be proud, but then she considers my social position to ave been substantially raised by marrying her son

We were going to call our DC's Doc, Prof and Rev to confuse people! Perhaps we should have gone ahead!

pmsl homebird thats brilliant.

if i have another dog - i will keep that in mind. when i the vet tey always say the pets name with your surname.

so would say " reverand custy" love it/

Ms - could be Dr, but that would be preposterous posturing.

And just to be awkward I refer to my 'husband' as 'partner' and probably the majority of my friends don't even know we're married.

i was a ms before i had a baby, then a miss (mainly because i am rather old). i may become a mrs in the future...

I prefer Miss but I'm often referred to as Mrs which just makes me look around to see where my Mums got to .

I was told in Italy I could be referred to as signora rather then signorina as a mark of respect - presumably to my antiquated age of 35 . Not sure that's much of a compliment really. They still only refer to men as signor there!!