{"id":49430,"count":471,"description":"Ms. (Canada, USA) or Ms (UK) (normally \u00a0\/\u02c8m\u026az\/ when stressed; when unstressed, either \u00a0\/\u02c8m\u026az\/, \/m\u0268z\/, \/m\u0259z\/ or \/m\u0259s\/) is an English honorific used with the last name or full name of a woman. According to The Emily Post Institute, Ms. is the default form of address for women, regardless of marital status, in the US.\n\"Ms.\", along with \"Miss\" and \"Mrs.\", began to be used as early as the 17th century as titles derived from the then formal \"Mistress\", which, like Mister, did not originally reference marital status. \"Ms.\" however, fell into disuse in favor of the other two titles and was not revived until the 20th century.\nThe earliest known proposal for the modern revival of \"Ms.\" as a title appeared in The Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts on November 10, 1901:\nThe term was again suggested as a convenience to writers of business letters by such publications as the Bulletin of the American Business Writing Association (1951) and The Simplified Letter, issued by the National Office...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/ms\/","name":"MS","slug":"ms","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/49430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=49430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}