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

I don't like being referred to as 'Mrs Bookwormmum surname' since I didn't marry my Dad or a male cousin on his side. I'm quite happy to use his surname though as it's relatively unusual unlike my Mum's maiden name which is one of the most common names in Gaelic families. Damned sight easier to spell though .

I am a Mrs and it irks me every time I show up as Ms MoosMa on the sign in the Dr's waiting room. I am a traditional sort of person who is proud to be a Mrs, so there.

I'm Mrs when I'm being called Ms - it makes me feel all belligerent.

Agree with Cat's post. When I was on the ward having my first, the midwife kept talking about what partners were and weren't allowed to do re visiting times etc, and DH said "and what are HUSBANDS allowed to do?"

i am a ms. married, but didnt take dh surname, so cant very vwell be mrs my name can i?
and not a miss as am married.
so a ms

1st time I married I was Mrs and took his name.Then when i got divorced it felt great to be me again and miss maiden name so when i remarried i stayed miss maiden which causes confusion with dd school and hosp as i am currently pg.

do i care !

Am Ms Maidenname although married. Children are hyphenated. Worked fine in London, but now I live in the West Country I can't seem to persuade people not to call me Mrs Maidenname once they clock I am actually married and not living in sin as per their first assumption.
Still, like I care.

Ms or miss. mostly.
unless its a 'pick from the dropdown list' number, and lady is on the list.
there are several companies who know me as Lady T Manana.
brilliant.

i chose ms a lot of the time coz i think its none of anyones, esp some blinkin stranger's, beeswax whether im married or not. i am who i am ta v much, my marital status has feck all to do with anyone but me and mine.

funnily enough i used to roll my eyes at my ma when she came out with that sort of thing when i was growing up. ha.

I'm a Mrs. The thing I get most offended at is the choice of name given to me by the Big Issue seller, I get annoyed at the one who insists in calling me "Ma'am" but quite chuffed at the one who calls me "Miss"!

Use professional title (Dr) most of the time, but otherwise Ms (and was Ms up till I got my PhD). Have not taken dh's surname either.

Dr, with my own surname.

I find Mrs a bit patronising and I always correct to Dr, especially with blokes. Some people need a gentle reminder that I have a brain

How is 'Mrs' patronising?

Possibly correcting to 'Dr' is more so...

whatever. Im divorced, so my bank account is still in mrs. For other things, I use whatever I feel like.

wish i could correct to doctor. have inferiority complex mixed in with my superiority complex.
spose i could, but being exposed as a fake would doutless add frther confusion to the complex mix of complexes

I am a Mrs ... have been for nearly 9 years. Don't have a problem with it.

Tranquila - I am allowed to call myself 'Dr' (PhD), but still feel vaguely uneasy, lest the other person assume I have medical knowledge and expose their boils to me or want to dicuss their embarrassing personal problem... For the same reason, I use 'Ms' when flying, and in any medical context!

Maybe you could try calling yourself Lady TranquilaManana, or The Hon. TranquilaManana???

lol at fear of random sudden exposure to peoples uhealthy flesh...

as i posted earlier, i do call myself Lady C XXX, whenever i sig up for something where Lady appears in the drop down list. it strikes me as amusing to call myself Lady, and more so that several companies address me as such and that my customer service does seem to be qu9ite attentive with said companies...hehe

once, an ocado man came right out and asked if really was a Lady, which was brave i thought. rofl.

mind you, being called Lady xxxxx (for real i mean)wouldnt make me feel superior at all. being called dr xxxxx becauseof something spectacularly clever and difficult i had done, would do.
fussy, me.

Ms

and I was amazed to read that article and see that most women under 30 hadn't heard of Ms!!! {shock}

In fact it horrifies me that that article still has to be written. And that I still have to specify "Ms" on the phone and on forms where it has not been allowed for. And that I still get called "Mrs X" [my surname] or even more commonly "Mrs Y" [DP's surname} all the time.

Even more proof, if any were needed, towards my long-running assertion that we're living in an even more sexist society than we used to.

Problem is for those of us who are married but have kept our own names Mrs Lazycow just downright wrong (that is my mother not me) and Miss xxx is incorrect as I am married. Hence I use Ms.

I was a Ms back in the nineties when I started work (to be taken seriously of course), switched to Miss when I moved to the UK and will go back to Ms when I get married (using my own name.)

We are expecting and one of the things on my DP's birthplan checklist is to ensure no one irritates me by calling me "Mrs DP".

I couldn't use Mrs and my own name - the only other living person sharing that name is my father's wife. Would hate to be confused with her!