In addressing three people in an email isn't it more polite to use their names rather than hi ladies Should the sign read ladies' coats or ladies coats Also when you walk into a quad cubicle isn't it more polite to address people by their names
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Grouping people together when there are only three is treating them as interchangeable, and is disrespectful isn't it?
Dear ladies or my dear ladies if you prefer
Traditional writing often used dear sir or madam so dear madams is correct although i think people avoid it today after that famous speech from the play i am not a madam Which played on the occasional usage of this word for a woman who runs a house of prostitution You can address one specifically the rest as a group like dear. Hence, there is no ambiguity with the men, and for the same reason no ambiguity with the 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' The metrical pattern of ladies and gentlemen consists of (arguably) two dactyls A dactyl is a group of three syllables where the first is stressed and the second two are unstressed. Dear ladies and gentlemen, having made sure to include the names of all the recipients in the postal address block pertaining to the addressees (if you are sending everyone a paper copy of the letter), so that all of them are able to see who else is covered by your salutation.
The tradition of ladies first was originally a case of men being nice to women by voluntarily giving up their right to precedence
As oerkelens has stated, this would only be the case in safe situations, as it wouldn't be nice to send a woman ahead into danger. 6 you might also be looking for the phrase pickup artist This used to be a synonym for a ladies' man, someone who was good at the skills and techniques of seduction However, it's recently begun to be associated with a specific subset of extremely creepy people who use a specific range of extremely creepy techniques to pick up women.
10 apart from guys, which is fine and the most obvious choice, as others have mentioned, you could use ladies, which has a tinge of both irony and flattery Ladies is best accompanied by slightly exaggerated punctilio if the speaker is a man.
