Talk:Mrs. White

I think it'd really be better to go ahead and just use the abbreviation in the title on this one. --KilMichaelMcC 03:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

To clarify, by "this one", I mean the one that gets listed in categories, since I see that Mrs. White already exists as a redirect, too. --KilMichaelMcC 20:19, 17 October 2006 (PDT)

Frankly, I find the whole "Mister" and "Doctor" policy we have here kinda pointless and dumb. But hey, it's the standard, until we change it. --ItsWalky 03:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Although I am at least partially responsible for that policy, since I moved some articles with Dr. to Doctor for the sake of consistency as Doctor was the more common, I am not particularly attached to it. --KilMichaelMcC 05:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I thought "Mrs." was the abbreviation of "Mistress"? Interrobang 20:49, 17 October 2006 (PDT)

That's where it came from. It doesn't mean that anymore. --ItsWalky 03:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Whatchoo talkin' about, Willis? "Missus" or "missis" is just a colloquialism for "mistress". If Mrs. is "canonically" still an abbreviation for anything anymore, it's for the word "mistress". Otherwise it is no abbreviation, and we might as well use the Mrs. form.

Looked it up in the dictionary. Yup, still 'mistress', according to Webster. What's odd is that 'miss' is also listed as a condensed form of the same word. I must find the Oxford Dictionary and learn how this happened.-Autobus Prime 14:03, 20 October 2006 (UTC)