Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that the…

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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.145, 谷月社
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.145, 谷月社

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