When to Use Miss, Mrs or Ms,
Business Etiquette
Lahle Wolfe, About.com
This article is about "how to adress women by gender title". Firstly, it introduces us to the many ways women have been adressed to troughout history. For example, it shows the different contractions used to nominate a married (Mrs) and an unmarried (Mistress) woman. The author also mentions the fact that calling a woman by the contraction of "Mistress" would be inappropriate in a business context. Secondly, he states that unmarried women prefer to be named by "Ms" rather than "Miss". Thirdly, the author wants to clear the fact that any woman nowadays can be called by "Ms", though it is only used to adress the ones who are of age. Furthermore, the author specifies the use of the abbreviation "Mrs" which is mostly used by women in the written form. Finally, the author makes a quick survey on the way to adress men. In fact, he exposes the guidelines to a successful and professional way of speaking to people in a business context.
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ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting article, I never saw any difference between all of these appellations. It is funny to see how many people are don't know how to adress themselves to people properly, especially in a writing context. Unfortunately, this makes them give a bad image of themselves
ReplyDeleteThis article shows us the importance of thinking before speaking because one always wants to seem savy in a business context. In fact, speaking correctly is the best way to make a good impression.
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