Fishko Files (WNYC), “Ms.”

June 28, 2012

Interviewed by Sarah Fishko for the WNYC show “Fishko Files” about the origins of the title “Ms.” (June 28, 2012)

Ben Zimmer – a language columnist, linguist and lexicographer – traced the earliest origins of “Ms.” to a November 1901 edition of The Sunday Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts. In the article the writer called for “a more comprehensive term which does homage to the sex without expressing any views to their domestic situation.”

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