Capt. Sterling

Try googling silk brocade...

OMG an hour of sleep but see, ye bilge rat, I am currently out of bed to wish ye many happy returns of the day!!!...

Merci, J'ai mes moments, mais ne dis personne d'autre ici que ... comme ils sont peu et loin entre

Are you bringing yer game this weekend? IF ye can fit it in yer luggage...snigger. If not I have a copy of Goose as well... and noI did not mount mine.... yet....

Please see pm! Thanks!!

Hmmm daddy was a lord then? Earl? Or late husband?

damnation woman! I like ye... someone who will allow me to run myself right into the ground... snigger

Ack!!! Right then, do so... ahem... we'll manage to work ...cough, cough, as well

Ah lass, I knew ye meant no offense.

diet pepsi and chocolate milk

Haven't played in years, but it used to be a favorite... snigger... now I wonder how much sewing we shall actually accomplish this weekend... oh right.. a lot... I don't have a backgammon board any more! whew...

Not to worry Silkie, m'dear... if he isn't using a translator, his English is good enough. Although perhaps ye might not be wanting to write in an accent at the moment...

Riche ? J'aime la façon que vous pensez, Monsieur. C'est toujours une prime ajoutée. Je vous souhaiterai le meilleur de chance.

ROTDLMAO... and the pipes??

I have heard tis huge... seats 12 and my sea bed fits inside...

Well then hurry up and get back to work! very nice... I see ye have mounted the Goose as well... snigger.

Donc vous aimez le sexe avec les dames étrangères, n'est-ce pas ? Je peux le garantir il y a un nombre ici qui serait heureux de vous tirer d'embarras. Soyez bienvenus au Pub.

Um... have ye, yerself, actually ever broken one of yer bottles?

Call them...email them... No offense but I don't have time to do your homework as well....

Now Rumba call her a woman of the town.. ye'll get her attention and quickly although her reaction will not be pleasant.

well from what little I am seeing at the moment... Goody applied to the yeoman class as well in England but don't know when the term ran out.. the actress could be addressed as Mrs. or Mistress... and I haven't found, not that I am looking hard mind you, anything that specific regarding the colonies as far as what an actress would be considered. Keep doing your research and give Colonial Williamsburg a call... they have players down there and a number of period theatricals from the later 18th century... Hmmm going to Hampton on Tuesday or Monday next week maybe I will stop in and ask some questions but don't hold yer breath

amazon carries the Hawke book, they can tell you the date, I do not have it with me

Check out some of the Verney letters as well.

Ran across something in I believe it was Everyday Life in Early America by David Hawke, a so-so book, that married women of better class would be address as madame instead of mrs. but they don't give any dates as to when this became common. It does state that in America, a farmer was addressed as Goodman and his wife Goodwife, but specifically states farmer as opposed to the yeoman/working class. Mister and Mistress was reserved for higher ranking. Now a Goodman could be addressed as Mister if he was chosen as a justice of the peace, something that could happen in the colonies but not back in England. Unfortunately not very specific.

FWIW... at least it might give you a place to look... October 21, 1999 Miss, Mrs., Ms. Charity Terry-Lorenzo wrote: In college one of my women's studies professors explained that the title "Mrs." or "Missus" came from the possessive "Master's". No one else I've spoken to out of college knows about this origin and I was hoping you could tell me if this is correct or not. If it's not correct, where does "Missus" as a title for a married woman originate? My dictionary tells me that it comes from "Mistress" but that does not currently refer to a married woman (rather to the "other" woman and several other meanings that are not quite "a married woman"). Please help clear this up for me. You're on the right track, but your professor got the genders confused! The titles Miss and Mrs. are both abbreviations of the word mistress. The missis (or the missus) is a dialectal or informal term for one's wife, or the mistress (female head) of a household. The pronunciation (MISS-iz, MISS-is) reflects an altered pronunciation of mistress. The word mistress had many meanings in Middle English, some of which are still familiar today: female head of a household, goddess, sweetheart, expert in some occupation, teacher, and governess. Basically, mistress referred to a woman who had expertise, power, and control. But it was also used as a title of courtesy when addressing an unmarried or married woman. The sense to which you refer, the 'other woman; the woman who occupies the place of wife' came into English about 1600. The abbreviation or shortened form miss was first used in 1645 (in John Evelyn's Diary) to mean 'a concubine; a kept mistress'. About twenty years later, Samuel Pepys first used the term as a capitalized title before the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Around the same time, John Dryden first used Miss as a term of address. There are also examples in which it referred to a female baby. The abbreviation Mrs. was first used in 1615 before the name of a married woman, as it is today. However, to confuse matters, it was also the abbreviation of mistress in all the many senses of that word, and it also distinguished an unmarried woman from a child: "Mrs. Veal was a maiden gentlewoman." (Daniel Defoe, The History of Colonel Jack) The male equivalent of mistress was master, which meant, among other things, 'male head of a household'. In the 16th century, master changed to mister and the abbreviation Mr. arose to identify a man but not his marital status. So it appears that the uses of Mr. and Mrs. were somewhat parallel until the 19th century. At that time, Mrs. began to refer only to a married woman. Many people have asked us about the abbreviation Ms. Surprisingly, it was first used as early as 1949, in Mario Pei's The Story of Language. It may be a blend of Miss and Mrs. Words@Random