Whether you’re addressing someone in person, in a letter, or with a formal invitation, titles are a symbol of respect. Men are always addressed as Mr., but it’s a bit more complicated for women. There ...

While some honorifics reveal a woman's marital status, Ms does not. Following the passing of American feminist Sheila Michaels, credited with bringing the term Ms into mainstream use, we asked you ...

When referring to a man, there's really only one option to use: "Mr." But there seems to be many more options for women. While it's clear that "Mrs." refers to a married woman, how do we know when to ...

The Wall Street Journal, for example, seems to use both, as some stories call her “Mrs.,” and others call her “Ms.” Other news outlets have a style preference, but can still look inconsistent if they ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Suppose Miss Jones marries Mr. Smith and decides, for whatever reason, to retain her maiden name. She is still deserving of the married honorific, is she not? Is “Mr. Smith and Mrs.

One of England’s biggest councils is to adopt gender neutral titles on forms. Oxford City Council has approved plans to include ‘Mx’ as an option on paperwork, alongside traditional terms such as Miss ...

Teachers have the right to ask pupils to call them ‘Mx’ instead of Mr, Mrs or Miss, Bridget Phillipson has said. The Education Secretary said teachers can ‘request’ that children call them by the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I had to fill out a form to get my watch repaired. The form required me to designate my preferred “civility” and there were only two ...

Wimbledon, one of tennis's Grand Slam tournaments, got underway this week in England. Kate Middleton has already dropped by to watch matches, and the first major upset is in the books as 15-year-old ...

I am quite certain the young man at the supermarket checkout was being extremely polite when he called me “Madam”, but I felt as if I’d aged two decades while he scanned the frozen peas. The term of ...