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 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. Having heard the phrase, faint heart never won fair lady for the third time in very short span, i'm determined to find out its origin 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. 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. Where did the saying ladies first originate
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. 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'. 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. 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). What is the male equivalent to the term cougar The term cougar describes an older woman seeking younger men So a male equivalent would be an older man seek.
Lady gaga has posed fully naked for a risqué photoshoot The poker face singer, 32, stunned her fans with the revealing pictures, which show her wearing only a pair of sheer white tights In several scenes, gaga is fully nude in natural or minimalist settings.
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