II10d

Asking directions of somebody on the street when you don’t know her name—what you’d say to a woman: “Excuse me, ________, how far is it to the next town?”

This question is new; it was not asked in the 1965–70 survey.

MA’AM11
MISS6
MAAM2
LADY1
MA’M1
MS.1

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