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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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What's Miss in English?

In the UK, in England, when I was a kid at school, we called our female teachers miss. We called the male teacher sir and the female teacher's miss. So that's maybe they picked it up somehow from British educational culture or something. But madam, just to be clear, as obviously is French. And it means miss, basically. Well, isn't that man was out? Madam was out is m- well, this, okay. There, I explain this to my students too because they call me misses. No one calls me misses Donally, but sometimes on my presentation, they're right misses and the abbreviation is MRS. In English. Can

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