"Mis-sus" is the accepted spelling/syllabification in music and in text.
There's also at least one movie title that uses it. It's not offensive (the
dictionary's reference to "dialect" is not prohibitive or damning). If
everyone refuses to accept a century of precedent, I have nothing further.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 9:03 PM Christopher Smith <
[email protected]> wrote:

> In “Me and Mrs. Jones” the publisher spells it “mis-sus”, which I am not
> sure about. I would have spelled it as “miss-es”, since it is pronounced
> the same as “hits and misses” with the last “s” voiced (“z”) and nobody has
> to question whether it’s actually unvoiced the way they would if you
> spelled it “mis-sus”.
>
> The Paul Simon music I have seen (Mrs. Robinson) is variously spelled
> “mis-sus” and “Mrs._” with a slur over two notes, which I think is dead
> wrong.
>
> Christopher
>
> > On Aug 27, 2019, at 8:43 PM, Michael Edwards <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > [ 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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