[ Robert Patterson: ]
FWIW (joking aside) my copy of Merriam Webster correctly identifies
"missus" as dialect in one of the definitions, and I would rather
avoid
that implication.
In that case, how would "Mr - s." go? But that might cause the
singer to start pronouncing "Mister" - although surely as they got to
know the line they would realize it's not that, so it shouldn't be an
issue. (Nothing seems truly satisfactory.) Maybe "mis-sus" or
"miss-us" in parentheses underneath the "Mr - s." would look like a
pronunciation guide rather than dialect.
Or, alternatively, "Mrs. -" (the hyphen acting as a syllable
extension and going under the second note). That wouldn't need the
pronunciation guide underneath in parentheses.
Michael Edwards.
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