{"id":12244,"date":"2009-07-14T08:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T15:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/07\/14\/first-occurrence-of-ms.html"},"modified":"2009-07-14T08:52:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T15:52:35","slug":"first-occurrence-of-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/07\/14\/first-occurrence-of-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"First occurrence of &#8220;Ms.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ben Zimmer may have tracked down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualthesaurus.com\/cm\/wordroutes\/1895\/\">first use of the word \"Ms.\"<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, the word was suggested in 1901 in the Springfield, Massachusetts <cite>Sunday Republican<\/cite>. The previous earliest known print citation was 1949, so this is a pretty cool discovery.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Zimmer may have tracked down the first use of the word &#8220;Ms.&#8221; Believe it or not, the word was suggested in 1901 in the Springfield, Massachusetts Sunday Republican. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}