Byline: Harry Rosenfeld
From time to time, readers ask us why we don't observe the amenities when it comes to identifying married women as Mrs. Others ask why we don't use Ms. before the names of all adult women, married or not.
Still others express concern that we don't treat members of the cloth with sufficient respect, because after an initial identification by title we only use the surname in subsequent references.
This, as a matter of fact, is what we do with all persons who figure in our news stories (although there are special rules for obituaries and editorials, among others).
The reason we follow one practice instead of another is known, in …
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