YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoFlorida teacher fired for using gender-neutral honorific ‘Mx.’www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1418arrow-down126
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minus-squareBottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·8 months agoTo be fair Mrs. (And to a lesser extent Mr.) Don’t have an obvious pronunciation from the spelling either. You’ve just been hearing them said out loud for most of your life.
minus-squareAlexstarfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·8 months agoFair, but they are also shorthand for words: Mister, Miss, Missus. All of which are pronounced as you’d expect. Is Mx short for something? I’ve not heard so but that doesn’t mean it isn’t.
To be fair Mrs. (And to a lesser extent Mr.) Don’t have an obvious pronunciation from the spelling either. You’ve just been hearing them said out loud for most of your life.
Fair, but they are also shorthand for words: Mister, Miss, Missus. All of which are pronounced as you’d expect.
Is Mx short for something? I’ve not heard so but that doesn’t mean it isn’t.