Milady (from my lady) is an english term of address to a noble woman Did it originally appeared in english countries, or It is the female form of milord
Lady Louise Windsor - SammarKylian
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 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. 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.
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'. 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
This seems rather a poor act of classification,. Where did the saying ladies first originate
