Mrs. Ms. Misses or Miss?

[Venom]

I, too, came to this point once, yet from another direction: What stands "Mrs." for? I wanted to use the full phrase in addition to the abbreviation to emphasise that the character was married. I ended up with "Misses" -- after asking around, that was. English is not my mother tongue, and it is indeed a problem to get clearance on this topic.

[John Tagliaferro]

I, too, came to this point once, yet from another direction: What stands "Mrs." for? I wanted to use the full phrase in addition to the abbreviation to emphasise that the character was married. I ended up with "Misses" -- after asking around, that was. English is not my mother tongue, and it is indeed a problem to get clearance on this topic.

In American English it has always been Misses during my young life.

[mkp]

I, too, came to this point once, yet from another direction: What stands "Mrs." for? I wanted to use the full phrase in addition to the abbreviation to emphasise that the character was married. I ended up with "Misses" -- after asking around, that was. English is not my mother tongue, and it is indeed a problem to get clearance on this topic.

Not actually being a linguistics person or anything, my guess would actually be that it comes from the possessive "Mister's".