"Mistress"

[Mark Mandel]

Not a noun, but a title of (possibly routine) respect, analogous to
"Master", ancestral respectively to "Mrs." and "Mr."

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> And what's up with that nursery rhyme,
>
> Mistress Mary
> Quite contrary
>
> etc.?
>
> -Wilson

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