Oh colin, I don't think I can answer that accuarately. I've used it from the age of 17. I know around that time you could choose your title, Ms/Mis/Mrs and I always went for Ms. However 'Ms' always raised a few eyebrows.
Lisa
Lisa
The 'F' word - acceptable or not
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A question for Lord B. - if Ms is the title for a lebian what would be the male equivilent for a homosexual man?
Caught me out there Colin , yes I sent it ;O)As a computer dinosaur tell me Brian how do you know Lisa has mail unless you sent it?
From Wikipedia :-
Since the term Mr does not indicate whether a man is married or not, many feminists believed that a woman's title should not indicate marital status either. For this reason, the title Ms was advocated as an equivalent to Mr, particularly in business usage. A few married women choose to forgo the use of "Mrs", particularly in professional life, even those who choose to take their husband's name. Instead, these women use "Ms". However, "Mrs" remains a popular title.
Since the term Mr does not indicate whether a man is married or not, many feminists believed that a woman's title should not indicate marital status either. For this reason, the title Ms was advocated as an equivalent to Mr, particularly in business usage. A few married women choose to forgo the use of "Mrs", particularly in professional life, even those who choose to take their husband's name. Instead, these women use "Ms". However, "Mrs" remains a popular title.
Choose your own colin - they usually prefer duckie or sweetie.A question for Lord B. - if Ms is the title for a lebian what would be the male equivilent for a homosexual man?
well done sir - I take my hat off to youFrom Wikipedia :-
Since the term Mr does not indicate whether a man is married or not, many feminists believed that a woman's title should not indicate marital status either. For this reason, the title Ms was advocated as an equivalent to Mr, particularly in business usage. A few married women choose to forgo the use of "Mrs", particularly in professional life, even those who choose to take their husband's name. Instead, these women use "Ms". However, "Mrs" remains a popular title.
Lord Braykewynde
18 Jun 2007 11:06 PM From Wikipedia :-
Since the term Mr does not indicate whether a man is married or not, many feminists believed that a woman's title should not indicate marital status either. For this reason, the title Ms was advocated as an equivalent to Mr, particularly in business usage. A few married women choose to forgo the use of "Mrs", particularly in professional life, even those who choose to take their husband's name. Instead, these women use "Ms". However, "Mrs" remains a popular title.
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Sorry another Frank posting. Yep, that sums it up.
However, worryingly, Germaine Greer only went out with married men in her heyday. Shame really coz she lost all credibility when I heard that. I actually saw her on tv admitting to that. Not all of us burnt our bras though.......
Lisa
18 Jun 2007 11:06 PM From Wikipedia :-
Since the term Mr does not indicate whether a man is married or not, many feminists believed that a woman's title should not indicate marital status either. For this reason, the title Ms was advocated as an equivalent to Mr, particularly in business usage. A few married women choose to forgo the use of "Mrs", particularly in professional life, even those who choose to take their husband's name. Instead, these women use "Ms". However, "Mrs" remains a popular title.
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Sorry another Frank posting. Yep, that sums it up.
However, worryingly, Germaine Greer only went out with married men in her heyday. Shame really coz she lost all credibility when I heard that. I actually saw her on tv admitting to that. Not all of us burnt our bras though.......
Lisa
This is my trouble you see - I was too young to be a Teddy Boy yet too old to be mixed up in the hippy flower power era. I had a quiet youth and missed out on all these trendy ways and expressions - who burnt their bra? I thought that with the amount of wiring in them they would have been returned to the steel works in Port Talbot for recycling.
......... anyway I digress, although as I said I do cuss, I don't in public or around my wife and family and find it offensive. In a civilised (hehheh!) society we should all have boundaries set that should not be crossed.
Back to the original xxxxxxx topic
WARNING IF YOU OR YOUR WIFE ARE OFFENDED BY THE USE OF THE LETTER X WHICH MAY STAND FOR SOMETHING ELSE PLEASE STOP READING NOW !!!!!
Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English language is the word "xxxx". It is the one magical word, which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love and hate. In language, "xxxx" falls into many grammatical categories. It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John xxxxxx Mary) and intransitive (Mary was xxxxxx by John). It can be an active verb (John really gives a xxxx) or a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a xxxx); or an adverb (Mary is xxxxxxx interested in John), and as a noun (Mary is a terrific xxxx)It can be used as an adjective (Mary is xxxxxxx beautiful). As you can see, there are very few words with the versatility of "xxxx".
Besides its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many situations:
Greetings How the xxxx are you?
Fraud I got xxxxxx by the car dealer.
Dismay Oh, xxxx it!
Trouble Well, I guess I'm xxxxxx now.
Aggression xxxx you.
Disgust xxxx me.
Confusion What the xxxx...?
Difficulty I don't understand this xxxxxxx business.
Despair xxxxxx again.
Incompetence He xxxxx up everything.
Displeasure What the xxxx is going on here?
Lost Where the xxxx are we?
Disbelief Unxxxxingbelieveable.
Retaliation Up your xxxxxxx ass.
Telling time I have to work till 5 o-xxxxxxx-clock.
It can be used in an anatomical description -- "He's a xxxxxxx a$$hole."
It can be used in business -- "How did I wind up with this xxxxxxx job?"
It can be maternal -- as in "Motherxxxxer".
It can be political -- "xxxx George Bush."
And, never forget General Custer's last words: "Where did all them xxxxxxx Indians come from?"
Or the Mayor of Hiroshima: "What the xxxx was that?"
And last, but not least, the immortal words of the Captain of the Titanic: "Where is all this xxxxxxx water coming from?"
The mind fairly boggles at the many creative uses of the word. How can anyone be offended when you say xxxx?
Use it frequently in your daily speech; it adds to your prestige.
Today - say to someone "xxxx You!"
Brian xxxx
WARNING IF YOU OR YOUR WIFE ARE OFFENDED BY THE USE OF THE LETTER X WHICH MAY STAND FOR SOMETHING ELSE PLEASE STOP READING NOW !!!!!
Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English language is the word "xxxx". It is the one magical word, which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love and hate. In language, "xxxx" falls into many grammatical categories. It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John xxxxxx Mary) and intransitive (Mary was xxxxxx by John). It can be an active verb (John really gives a xxxx) or a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a xxxx); or an adverb (Mary is xxxxxxx interested in John), and as a noun (Mary is a terrific xxxx)It can be used as an adjective (Mary is xxxxxxx beautiful). As you can see, there are very few words with the versatility of "xxxx".
Besides its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many situations:
Greetings How the xxxx are you?
Fraud I got xxxxxx by the car dealer.
Dismay Oh, xxxx it!
Trouble Well, I guess I'm xxxxxx now.
Aggression xxxx you.
Disgust xxxx me.
Confusion What the xxxx...?
Difficulty I don't understand this xxxxxxx business.
Despair xxxxxx again.
Incompetence He xxxxx up everything.
Displeasure What the xxxx is going on here?
Lost Where the xxxx are we?
Disbelief Unxxxxingbelieveable.
Retaliation Up your xxxxxxx ass.
Telling time I have to work till 5 o-xxxxxxx-clock.
It can be used in an anatomical description -- "He's a xxxxxxx a$$hole."
It can be used in business -- "How did I wind up with this xxxxxxx job?"
It can be maternal -- as in "Motherxxxxer".
It can be political -- "xxxx George Bush."
And, never forget General Custer's last words: "Where did all them xxxxxxx Indians come from?"
Or the Mayor of Hiroshima: "What the xxxx was that?"
And last, but not least, the immortal words of the Captain of the Titanic: "Where is all this xxxxxxx water coming from?"
The mind fairly boggles at the many creative uses of the word. How can anyone be offended when you say xxxx?
Use it frequently in your daily speech; it adds to your prestige.
Today - say to someone "xxxx You!"
Brian xxxx
We may have just lost the great Bernard Manning but a least we've got Brian to replace him.
God help us..........LOL.
God help us..........LOL.
I thought the captain of the Titanic asked "who the xxxx ordered all this ice?"Back to the original xxxxxxx topic
WARNING IF YOU OR YOUR WIFE ARE OFFENDED BY THE USE OF THE LETTER X WHICH MAY STAND FOR SOMETHING ELSE PLEASE STOP READING NOW !!!!!
Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English language is the word "xxxx". It is the one magical word, which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love and hate. In language, "xxxx" falls into many grammatical categories. It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John xxxxxx Mary) and intransitive (Mary was xxxxxx by John). It can be an active verb (John really gives a xxxx) or a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a xxxx); or an adverb (Mary is xxxxxxx interested in John), and as a noun (Mary is a terrific xxxx)It can be used as an adjective (Mary is xxxxxxx beautiful). As you can see, there are very few words with the versatility of "xxxx".
Besides its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many situations:
Greetings How the xxxx are you?
Fraud I got xxxxxx by the car dealer.
Dismay Oh, xxxx it!
Trouble Well, I guess I'm xxxxxx now.
Aggression xxxx you.
Disgust xxxx me.
Confusion What the xxxx...?
Difficulty I don't understand this xxxxxxx business.
Despair xxxxxx again.
Incompetence He xxxxx up everything.
Displeasure What the xxxx is going on here?
Lost Where the xxxx are we?
Disbelief Unxxxxingbelieveable.
Retaliation Up your xxxxxxx ass.
Telling time I have to work till 5 o-xxxxxxx-clock.
It can be used in an anatomical description -- "He's a xxxxxxx a$$hole."
It can be used in business -- "How did I wind up with this xxxxxxx job?"
It can be maternal -- as in "Motherxxxxer".
It can be political -- "xxxx George Bush."
And, never forget General Custer's last words: "Where did all them xxxxxxx Indians come from?"
Or the Mayor of Hiroshima: "What the xxxx was that?"
And last, but not least, the immortal words of the Captain of the Titanic: "Where is all this xxxxxxx water coming from?"
The mind fairly boggles at the many creative uses of the word. How can anyone be offended when you say xxxx?
Use it frequently in your daily speech; it adds to your prestige.
Today - say to someone "xxxx You!"
Brian xxxx
Googled I'm afraid Pete and checked soooo many times in case I missed one ;O)We may have just lost the great Bernard Manning but a least we've got Brian to replace him.
God help us..........LOL.
Talking of Bernard Manning reminds me of the joke he said tonight on the 6:00 o'clock news "If a foreigner is born in this country it does not make him British - if a dog is born in a stable is he a horse?"
hi danny, you should not worry to much about the username i thought what chrissielizzie was about a constructive debate [ by the way for your interest the username is after a bird,you took it the wrong way ]Not wishing to get into an argument but is'nt TOMTIT short for having a sh#t ?
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