- grammaticality - Ladys Ladies or ladies - English Language Usage . . .
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
- Origin of milady - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Yes, milady comes from "my lady" 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: In the nineteenth century, milord (also milor) (pronounced "mee-lor") was well-known as a word which continental Europeans (especially French) whose jobs often brought them into contact with travellers (innkeepers, guides
- Correct use of possession for the plural ladies [closed]
Ladies is the plural form of lady, so the apostrophe goes to the right - 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' It can get a bit niggly with names too Aristophanes' plays, but Jesus's miracles and (usually) James
- What is the origin of the saying, faint heart never won fair lady?
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 Unfortunately, when I Google, I'm getting a bunch of low-q
- etymology - Look, lady, Listen, lady – lady as a pejorative . . .
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
- single word requests - Is there an opposite gender for lady . . .
Idiomatically, it is gentleman Lady comes from an Old English compound noun meaning roughly "loaf kneader," whereas lord comes from a compound noun meaning "loaf keeper" or "loaf protector " The etymological counterpart of gentleman, which is indeed gentlewoman, is used infrequently these days, usually in historical or quasi-historical contexts
- What does “lady wife mistress of a household” mean?
Some websites have a different version: 23 and me punctuates it "lady, wife, mistress of a household" Both that and the OP's link reference Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2022, which should be your first port of call for accurate details and more information
- A lady or a woman? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
How did "lady" and "ladies" come to differ in conveying degree of respect? Does calling to a strange woman "Hey, lady!" sound angry? The takeaway from those is that you should generally avoid using the singular "lady" as a direct form of address to a person herself, as it's likely to sound confrontational There may be some exceptions
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