>From the Cambridge International Dictionary of English:

Messrs formal plural of 
"Mr" title used before a man's name, esp. used before the names of two or
more people in the title of a company 
Messrs Wood and Laurence, solicitors


It's pronounced much like (and has meaning similar to) the French word
"messieurs", except that the trailing "s" *is* pronounced in English (i.e.
"may-syurz").

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Ramberg [mailto:karl.ramberg at chello.se]
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 1:38 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Mssrs ? Re: iPAQ 3670 (was: a morphic tutorial in morphic)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Noel J. Bergman" wrote:
> > 
> > John,
> > 
> > Jim Gettys is a very active participant on the iPAQ linux 
> mailing list @
> > www.handhelds.org.  As are Mssrs Kay, Ingalls, Raab, et al 
> on this list.  In
> > general, you will find that the "names" you know from your 
> readings are also
> > really nice people, not just sub-cultural icons.
> 
> Mssrs ?
> I could not find any online reference that explained what this means.
> 
> Karl
>