Yes, milady comes from my lady Even when lady macbeth says Milady (from my lady) is an english term of address to a noble woman
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It is the female form of milord
And here's some background on milord
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. 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,. 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.
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. Where did the saying ladies first originate
Did it originally appeared in english countries, or And is this always expressed in a positive/polite tune of meaning
