Lighter, random house historical dictionary of american slang (1997) traces the slang term jones as a noun to 1962 and as a verb to 1974 I'm heading over to the joneses'. @tunny this may depend on your regional preferences
George Jones, country music legend, is dead at 81 - oregonlive.com
I have heard many people say (phonetic) mr
Jones ornamant where they don't add an ez to jones when making it.
I'm not sure whether 'mrs' or 'ms' is preferred when the context clearly shows that the lady is. There is a case to be made for parallelism We use dear mr jones, dear mrs jones, dear messrs green, dear dr tyler, putting the honorific or title before the surname Jones, smith, bloggs, and flintstone
The abbreviation for addressing more than one ms Note that the abbreviation mmes. (from the. @edwinashworth according to longman pronunciation dictionary, with proper names ending in a sibilant, usage varies Usually, the possessive is pronounced regularly, though the spelling may.
Keeping up with the joneses
