Milady (from my lady) is an english term of address to a noble woman 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 is the female form of milord
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And here's some background on milord
The plural possessive is ladies'. lady is singular, so if you were referring solely to one woman's shoes, it would be the lady's shoes. as for your second question, i'm assuming you're referring to a group of women in your salutation of them, so it would be good morning, ladies. and as you're addressing them directly, the comma preceding ladies is necessary.
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 Even with the getup and everything, she looked classically beautiful. first time i've fallen in love with a woman in a poofy wig. 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. Where did the saying ladies first originate Did it originally appeared in english countries, or
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And is this always expressed in a positive/polite tune of meaning
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. 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. 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'. This seems rather a poor act of classification,.
