In american english, a single woman may be considered 'wifey' if she is stereotypically suitable marriage material for a sexist type of man, and in the uk, it. That says that my habbit to say except of is a mistake? The men might have different opinions, and circumstances alter cases, but i expect wifey would take a dim view of the diminutive
Wifey stunning : wifeysworld2
By the same token, girlie / sonny today are likely to be seen as insulting / disrespectful in many contexts (but lassie / laddie are more generally acceptable in scotland)
I've used to say except of for a lot of sentences but recently someone noted (or corrected) me apart from
I don't really remember the context that this correction was in Anyway, after sometime i saw this article in cambridge which is talking about the difference between except for to apart from
