- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What is a female or gender neutral form of gentleman that relays the . . .
Most of the answers are missing the whole point of this question: Gentleman retains connotations of respect that Lady has largely lost, so is there a current conversational way of referring to a female customer that does carry those connotations more strongly than lady? The answer may be "no" but that doesn't make it a bad question
- Where did Shakespeare get milk of human kindness from?
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)
- Why ladybird? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In case you don't know, in British English, the little red-with-black-spots insect is not called a "ladybug", as in North America, but a "ladybird" This seems rather a poor act of classification,
- 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
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