Also when you walk into a quad cubicle isn't it more polite to address people by their names Should the sign read ladies' coats or ladies coats Grouping people together when there are only three is treating them as interchangeable, and is disrespectful isn't it?
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Dear ladies or my dear ladies if you prefer
Traditional writing often used dear sir or madam so dear madams is correct although i think people avoid it today after that famous speech from the play i am not a madam
Which played on the occasional usage of this word for a woman who runs a house of prostitution You can address one specifically the rest as a group like dear. 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. Hence, there is no ambiguity with the men, and for the same reason no ambiguity with the ladies
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' The metrical pattern of ladies and gentlemen consists of (arguably) two dactyls A dactyl is a group of three syllables where the first is stressed and the second two are unstressed. The tradition of ladies first was originally a case of men being nice to women by voluntarily giving up their right to precedence
As oerkelens has stated, this would only be the case in safe situations, as it wouldn't be nice to send a woman ahead into danger.
You can't tell the singular from the plural possessive in speech, so there's no reason to do it in writing, either So after you get out you can just omit the apostrophe like we do in speaking and write mens room the way it's pronounced Both ladies' beer and ladies beer are acceptable, but there is a slightly different implication depending on which you use Ladies' beer is written in the possessive form, and thus implies ownership.
10 apart from guys, which is fine and the most obvious choice, as others have mentioned, you could use ladies, which has a tinge of both irony and flattery Ladies is best accompanied by slightly exaggerated punctilio if the speaker is a man.
