"Mr.", "Mrs.", "Ms."

[nq:1]Do I have this right? - "Mr." (pronounced "Mister") came from "Master". - "Mrs." (pronounced "Misses") came from "Mistress". - "Ms." (pronounced "Mizz") stands for nothing and came from nothing.[/nq]
You basically have that right. Note that in some Southern US dialects "Mrs." is supposedly pronounced "Miz" (like StandAmE "Ms."). Note too that some BrE speakers claim to pronounce "Ms." as

[nq:2]And also please check this one: - The modern abbreviation for "Mistress" is "Mss." (Don't ask mewhere I saw this one used.)[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think there is any modern usage of "Mistress" as a title, soit follows that there's no modern abbreviation.[/nq]
I wouldn't DARE say that to any woman who takes the title "Mistress".

[nq:1]- "Ms." (pronounced "Mizz") stands for nothing and came from nothing.[/nq]
Not quite. As a formal term of address, Miss and Mrs. differentiate between unmarried and married women, which the form Mr. does not among the men to whom it is applied. So certain reformers wanted 35 years ago a form of address for women that did not specify their (irrelevant) marital status, and proposed Ms. I.e

[nq:2]- "Ms." (pronounced "Mizz") stands for nothing and came from nothing.[/nq]
[nq:1]Not quite. As a formal term of address, Miss and Mrs. differentiate between unmarried and married women, which the form ... 35 years ago a form of address for women that did not specify their (irrelevant) marital status, and proposed Ms.[/nq]
Which had already been in some use since the early postwar era

[nq:2]- "Ms." (pronounced "Mizz") stands for nothing and came from nothing.[/nq]
[nq:1]Not quite. As a formal term of address, Miss and Mrs. differentiate between unmarried and married women, which the form ... Ms. I.e. it is a synthetic term but has a very specific function. Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)[/nq]
Despite the ridicule MS. got when first coined it has become

[nq:2]Not quite. As a formal term of address, Miss and ... did not specify their (irrelevant) marital status, and proposed Ms.[/nq]
[nq:1]Which had already been in some use since the early postwar era in, for example, the bulk mailing domain.[/nq]
There's now some evidence that "Ms." dates back all the way to the turn of the 20th century. On the Newspaperarchive database, I found the follo

[nq:2]Not quite. As a formal term of address, Miss and ... is a synthetic term but has a very specific function.[/nq]
[nq:1]Despite the ridicule MS. got when first coined it has become established, there is even a MS. magazine.[/nq]
That's rather an odd way of putting the sequence of events, in my opinion. MS. Magazine has been around since 1972, which is exactly the same time as women beg

[nq:1]Do I have this right? - "Mr." (pronounced "Mister") came from "Master". - "Mrs." (pronounced "Misses") came from "Mistress". - ... check this one: - The modern abbreviation for "Mistress" is "Mss." (Don't ask me where I saw this one used.)[/nq]
It is certainly not true that "Ms." "came from nothing." "Mr.," "Mrs.," "Miss," and "Ms." all trace back to the same Latin source.

It's

raymond o'hara filted:
[nq:1]Despite the ridicule MS. got when first coined it has become established, there is even a MS. magazine.[/nq]
We really ought to send them a manuscript..r

[nq:1]Do I have this right? - "Mr." (pronounced "Mister") came from "Master". - "Mrs." (pronounced "Misses") came from "Mistress". - ... check this one: - The modern abbreviation for "Mistress" is "Mss." (Don't ask me where I saw this one used.)[/nq]
And then there are manuscripts.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa