honorific

She is now, so the honorific is called for when people refer to her now.

More than that it might be even annoying to be unable to choose the honorific you personally prefer.

Any one of us, regardless of honorific titles, could have made this mistake, and you know it.

The key way to think of this is that the pronoun is an honorific which always signifies the current state of the individual, and it is not a historical fact.

It would be a dubious act, morally and statistically, to predict the likelihood of maternity leave based on an honorific.

Unfortunately, they are abbreviated the same way, and the honorific Master has fallen into obsolescence.

Edit: Wikipedia shows that sheikh can be an honorific Arab term and I meant a royal or monarch.

I believe the proper honorific is to reference the highest office, so it's the Vice President Al Gore.

Sir is just an honorific applied willy-nilly by Indians both online and offline.

If it helps to choose an honorific (Mr, Ms etc) then fine, whatever.

Otherwise you would just use he/she or a title name (queen, king, lord etc) If you're looking to replace he/she you should not use an honorific form.

If facts related to the individual's gender at an earlier time are germane, such facts should be explicitly stated rather than overloading the pronoun, which (remember) is simply an honorific which the user has selected.

The Guardian, which restricts its use of honorific titles to leading articles, states in its style guide: "use Ms for women...

American English often abbreviates Honorable (the honorific for a judge or magistrate) as "Hon.".

True enough, but Feynman's certainly entitled to the "hacker" honorific, same as Woz or Felsenstein or Stallman or any of the other usual suspects.

I suppose it could say, "The process will begin when you start scanning items." but it's simpler to use the honorific.