Milady (from my lady) is an english term of address to a noble woman It is the female form of milord And here's some background on milord There are sometimes difficulties with using 'ladies' or 'lady' alone, but that is another longer question entirely to address all those contexts But for this question, the answer is easy You don't want to use the word 'gentlewoman' in almost all circumstances.
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'. When speaking to my female friends (who know me well enough to not take offense), i frequently use the term toots to refer to them These are friends who know that i'm using it ironically as part. Even when lady macbeth says And take my milk for gall, that would definitely support the literal humorism theory, but i still don't understand how we get from milk to blood (too much of the blood humor supposedly being the problem).
Is the usage of handsome here archaic, or just rarely used by those in the know If the former, when did it become so? 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. 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 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
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. Whats does woman front bits actually means This question is surprisingly inspired by one of the answers to this question Is there any slang i should avoid in the uk or ireland In a list of classmates, how is the name of a married female and spouse listed Is the female given name or her husband's given name written first
How is the maiden name shown?
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