Fio awoke this morning thinking about the courtesy address mizruz, which she always assumed was a misguided attempt to pronounce the spelled-out "Mrs.," but now wonders if it could be a dialectal derivative of "Mistress," from which the more standard pronunciation "missus" is descended.
Got all that?
Postscript:
Woke up the following morning thinking that mizruz could be an intermediary form between mistress and missus--"Mistress' with the t dropped, which would encourage the voiceless sibilant s to become a voiced sibilant z.
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