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. We can't say * a very dancing child, but we can say a very entertaining clown 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. Dancing can't be modified by very I have been wondering about this little problem for a while now
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
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.
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 1 the lady being proposed to by a man is the man's love interest Noun love interest (plural love interests) one who is of interest as a potential partner in love
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. In this noun phrase, dancing is a verb phrase
If we compare it to the genuine participial adjective entertaining the reasons becomes clear
