Re: Homosexuality and gender identity
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 12:25 |
Tristan McLeay scripsit:
> Well, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Though the older something is, the
> more likely it is to put a dot at the end of 'Mr' and suchlike. The
> replacement of Mrs and Miss by Ms seems to have killed the dot, though:
> Ms doesn't have a dot, so Mr doesn't to look similar from whence its
> absence spreads everywhere.
"Ms." definitely does have a dot in North America, despite not being
an abbreviation; presumably by analogy.
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