Cheeky Actress

Snug...(shhh)

Well...seeing that I'm at work and we have a water purifying system….I am all right with water for now. But after 5 pm…watch out….I’ve got a Margarita with my name on it!

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

No offence. Understood.

Fancy that...we ladies thinking along the same line!

Damn you all! You're just plain evil!

Bread pudding with whiskey sauce, you say? Dinner cannot come soon enough...

I am wondering if being a Widow would change ones title in the Colonies during the late 17th Century?

If you have a chance Captain...do ask about this as well.

Gee Poopdeck Pappy....did ya have to show this to me today?! I'm trying to stick to my diet!

Plain water....(sigh)...just plain water...

Ooo! Really?! That would be great seeing that it is a limited run on Broadway. I wonder how much something like that could go on the 'Black Market', eh Bess?

Wow! Glad that he's having a successful run of it. Sounds like a great show.

**Scratches his head** I was wondering, with all this talk of flying, aren't all of your collective arms going to be a wee bit tired?????

Animal

I'm using me broom

Hey Lily? Isn't that the one I lent you last year?

Not swaying from the topic of Rabbits/Bunnies...and seeing that we've already freaked Mae out...

The Undead Bunny

Ooo! Do NOT do that ever again!

I know that he's currently on Broadway.

I saw the word, "Dead" and thought, Gosh...I guess his reviews for his role as a 400-year-old king "Exit The King" weren't that great.

Well I guess 'hey wench' to Cheeky Actress isn't going to work......

For Bess...yes, she'd turn around and give you a look...

As for Lilly McKinney...she's probably not even respond to your calling. Yet, it doesn't mean that she didn't hear you!

Coffee

Red Markers that have dried up

Sheryl

Capt John Sterling

PINS

Brace oneself!

Yes, Captain I see that by 1560, the title "Goody" was an abbreviation of goodwife, a lowly courtesy address to a married Christain woman...both in England and in the Colonies.

As for the Gentle Woman's title here in the States...nothing as of yet.

Very well...and thank you if you remember!

Wot???? " Grettings my fine little strumpet" isn't proper????

***Animal heads out the door before Cheeky has a chance to throw something***

Animal

Animal/Maddogge...

Remind me to make sure you two don't gather together at the Pirate Pub down at PIP this Winter. You two think Waaaay to much alike!

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

Thank you...will do.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Refering to my Persona's

Goody Bess Hagardy - Indentured Servant - Widowed, Middle-Age...In England addressed as Miss and in the Colonies as Goody?

Lilly McKinney - Actress - Single, unmarried, Middle-sort - In England addressed as Mrs. (Mistress) and in the Colonies as ???

I love to confound people with strange, archaic word meanings. Want to really blow peoples' minds? Point out that the word "girl" could originally mean either a young woman or a young man. Think today's teen boys would like to be called girls? Oh, the possibilities of deviltry are endless!

Wow! Them would be fighting words these days for any poor youthful boy at high school level. Any example/proof of this, Red Sea Trade?

Thank you everyone for their input and references!

Though the use of these titles may have began in the 17th Century, it is obvious that with the change of social class and status, so did the titles (the Modern Era). I am sure that it did take some time for it to 'catch up' with the Colonies.

Captain, when was the book,” Everyday Life in Early America”, by David Hawke written?

I have found, "Memoirs of the Verney Family" on line. It should be an interesting read.

In the work of “The Virgin’s Pattern: in the Exemplary Life and lamented Death of Mrs. Susanna Perwick,” I noticed that “Mrs.” was the proper title then applied to ‘respectable unmarried females”. The title “Miss” – except in the case of very young girls - was being reserved for the “other sort of woman”.

These days, Mrs. Is a proper title used for a married woman. Miss, of course, is used for young ladies.

Therefore, when did the title rule(s) change?

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