Milady (from my lady) is an english term of address to a noble woman Even when lady macbeth says It is the female form of milord
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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.
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'. 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 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. This seems rather a poor act of classification,. 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.
11 how lady is going to be received really depends on your audience
That said, some options are My good lady my lady my good woman madam woman a lot will depend on context, too, as well as tone. 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.
