Yes, milady comes from my lady A kind of delicate way to say that woman looks like a man! in this movie, lady penbroke really couldn't be described as such Milady (from my lady) is an english term of address to a noble woman
muscle girl, thighs, Sif / Lady Sif (God of War) - pixiv
It is the female form of milord
And here's some background on milord
If you are wondering why we don't write ladies's, it is because ladies is one of the exceptions, along with girls', parents', players', weeks' and even klingons' it can get a bit niggly with names too Aristophanes' plays, but jesus's miracles and (usually) james. Otherwise, as elliot frisch has suggested, lady is the term you want But in my opinion, if you're talking about clients of yours, be gender neutral
Lady can have negative implications in this setting because it is often used in a negative fashion, e.g That lady wouldn't stop talking about. I have been wondering about this little problem for a while now Everyone understands that, in the binary, the opposite of 'man' is 'woman', and the opposite of 'gentleman' is, namely, 'gentlewoman'.
The phrase means 'the lady of the house', but in the context of the derivation of the surname tiplady they think 'lady' might imply a man's mistress.
This seems rather a poor act of classification,. I tried searching google ngram viewer for look lady and listen lady, both capitalized so as to occur at the start of a sentence, with the hope that these ngrams would reflect the usage of lady in a derogatory/dismissive sense It seems to have come into usage around 1950, and really took off in the late 1990s. Where did the saying ladies first originate
Did it originally appeared in english countries, or And is this always expressed in a positive/polite tune of meaning
