My "Missus" verses the mistress
[QUOTE=Goyave; 1143126]No Freudian slip here, as 'Mrs' originated as a contraction of the honorific 'Mistress'.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs[/url]
[/QUOTE]Okay I had never heard "mistress" used that way before. Its sounds ancient / archaic. You keyword was "originated" (in times long gone by). So forgive my ignorance.
[url]http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/mistress[/url]
lists only one meaning (no capital M) , so I guess the other meaning "Mrs." is obsolete.