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In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
A gender-specific job title is a name of a job that also specifies or implies the gender of the person performing that job. For example, in English, the job titles stewardess and seamstress imply that the person is female, whilst the corresponding job titles steward and seamster imply that the person is male.
The Latin neutral form of "tor" and "trix", is "trum". Mont is a nature-oriented choice. It can be a reference to the root of the origin word for Mr/Ms, which is Magis. Magis means great or high. Mg stands for Magis. Related to Magister, an origin word for Mr/Ms. Pr is short for the word "person", pronounced "per". [9]
Both of those examples are over 100 years old: “Hir” was used in the Sacramento Bee in 1920, and “ze” was used by a writer known only by the initials JWL in 1864.
A Central European order in which female members receive the rank of Dame is the Order of Saint George. [5] Since there is no female equivalent to a Knight Bachelor, women are always appointed to an order of chivalry. [6] Women who are appointed to the Order of the Garter or the Order of the Thistle are given the title of Lady rather than Dame. [7]
Apart from pronouns, gender can be marked in personal names and certain titles. [27] Many words in modern English refer specifically to people or animals of a particular sex. [28] An example of an English word that has retained gender-specific spellings is the noun-form of blond/blonde, with the former being masculine and the latter being ...
President Trump will on his first day in office Monday issue an order defining a person's sex as "male or female" — requiring government agencies to use the "immutable" designation on forms and ...
The equivalent for a female who holds a knighthood or baronetcy in her own right is 'Dame', and follows the same usage customs as 'Sir'. [7] Although this form was previously also used for the wives of knights and baronets, it is now customary to refer to them as 'Lady', followed by their surname; they are never addressed using their full names.