[Ads-l] "Mx."

[Mark Mandel]

Heh! :-)  Thanks.

Mk (pronounced "Mark")


On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 10:45 AM Rowan McMullin <tryxchange at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Mix"
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 9:43 AM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Which directly raises a question of mine: How is it pronounced? In
> writing
> > that question is circumvented, but this explicitly places it in
> > conversational speech.
> >
> > Mark Mandel
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 10:38 AM Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Urban Dictionary says:
> > >
> > > "Mx. The title of a person who is neither female nor male (or
> > > not strictly either). Like Mr. and Ms. but for gender variants.
> > >
> > >    'Mx. Walker is my teacher for science.  They're really cool!'"
> > >
> > > G. Cohen
>
>

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