2007-02-10 07:11:14 · 25 answers · asked by RICHARD S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Miss or Mademoiselle. NOT Mistress.
2007-02-10 07:13:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Use the terms Miss or Ms. Mistress sounds really bad.
2007-02-11 08:10:21 · answer #2 · answered by Mari76 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd use Miss. Mistress is a person involved with a married man.
2007-02-10 07:43:20 · answer #3 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mistress? Are you SURE she's having sex with a married man? That is what that word means, these days.
"Miss" is proper. Even skipping that altogether and just writing out her given name is far better than mistress.
2007-02-10 07:20:16 · answer #4 · answered by kiwi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That is archaic term of address and is no longer appropriate. Typically there are two different, though related, definitions of "Mistress" and both have implied sexual conotations. Not a good idea when speaking to any female you're not intimately familiar with.
~ FR
2007-02-10 07:20:17 · answer #5 · answered by Max 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check here: info@advancedetiquette.com
It looks like a good site.
Personally, I think that Miss IS already an abbreviation of Mistress (might have changed somewhere 200 years ago?) Not sure.
2007-02-10 07:38:14 · answer #6 · answered by joe m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Address it with the abreviation : Ms.
This stands for Miss or Misses, but by no means does it stand for Mistress! lolwu
2007-02-10 07:22:33 · answer #7 · answered by _aihlie_ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ms. is a particular way now to not offend someone. It applies to both married and unmarried women human beings. if you're incorrect about in the experience that they are married or not, or in the experience that they discover it offensive to be categorized by technique of their marital prestige, you're chance-free with Ms. i'm a touch quaint myself, and love being observed as omit. So and So. it really is in basic terms for a small area of your existence that you get to be observed as omit, so i prefer to delight in it. even as i'm married, i visit in addition delight in being observed as Mrs. So and So.
2016-11-26 21:42:06 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, a mistress is thought of as the women who sleeps with a married man.
2007-02-10 07:14:00 · answer #9 · answered by snapple232 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't even want to know why you are writing a very young girl a letter.
2007-02-10 07:20:48 · answer #10 · answered by ta2dpilot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋