Talk:High School Story Miscellaneous Characters/@comment-35059467-20190107203627/@comment-3452092-20190115235335

Nope. Miss isn't shortened. Ms. is the combined form of Mrs. and Miss that doesn't denote marital status (and the reason for denoting marital status, or at least one, I'm sure there are many, is so that you know if the last name that follows is the one they were born with or one they married into and yeah a lot of people don't change their name any more, but a lot do. Also there are two words for guys, but one of them hasn't been used in a long time and usually was denoting a young boy rather than just an unmarried one). Also in times past Ms. was used more for people who were divorced, because at that point they are kind of in a limbo of neither married nor single. As such I am Miss until I am Mrs. and I will never be Ms. and I really dislike how prevalent it is in today's society.