The All England Club is aiming to 'move with the times,' and language experts agree it's an important step forward.
News that the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club — the venue for Wimbledon — is dropping its longtime tradition of having umpires refer to women players with the titles “Ms.,” “Miss” or “Mrs.” before their last names has been drawing mixed reactions online, with folks calling it everything from “Good!” to “absurd.”
She added, “Some of the traditions — white clothing, playing on grass — they are our greatest strengths and the things that we do. Others absolutely have to move with the times. You have to respect the wishes of the players. I suppose the challenge for us is: How much you rewrite history?” Whether such titles will disappear from language altogether is uncertain, Pauwels notes. “However,” she adds, “considering the changes in relationships both in terms of gender — heterosexual/same sex/LGBTQ — and in marital arrangements [such as] living together, second/third marriages and blended relations, these terms are increasingly meaningless for many people.”
The idea didn’t latch on, though, until 1961, when “Ms.” was popularized in part by feminist activist Sheila Michaels. In a story about her death, Canadain linguist Sali Tagliomonte told The Star , “When you have socio-cultural change and you have economic change, you’re going to have language change,” adding that it’s no wonder that such “gendered words” would fall out of favor.
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