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. At the beginning of the my fair lady movie, there is a monologue of prof Hear a yorkshireman, or worse hear a cornishman converse i'd rather hear a choir singing flat chickens
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. 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.
From my research it looks as though lady was originally pejorative It's etymology is mostly hypothesized, but consensus puts emergence of the word circa 1200 The word lady shed its pejorative bonds and reemerged in the mid 1800s to denote a woman of higher social status Comparing the first known usage of lady to its counterpart lord The word 'lady'took on a negative connotation when it. 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).
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