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.
Hence, there is no ambiguity with the men, and for the same reason no ambiguity with the ladies. 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'
Both "Ladies' Beer" and "Ladies Beer" are acceptable, but there is a slightly different implication depending on which you use. "Ladies' Beer" is written in the possessive form, and thus implies ownership.
Closed 13 years ago. In addressing three people in an email isn't it more polite to use their names rather than "Hi ladies"? Also when you walk into a quad cubicle isn't it more polite to address people by their names? Grouping people together when there are only three is treating them as interchangeable, and is disrespectful isn't it?
Ladies Captain means the Captain responsible for Ladies Golf elected to represent the Lady Members at Club and County level and to fulfil [sic] any requirements of the relevant Golf Association.
Ladies and gentlemen everyone [nothing] friends / folks / team Avoid mixing and matching: both hey there, ladies and gentlemen, let's rock! and S'up, honoured guests? are kind of weird. Not impossible to use, but definitely an expert technique. It's fine to say Good morning folks though.
The tradition of "Ladies First" was originally a case of men being nice to women by voluntarily giving up their right to precedence. As oerkelens has stated, this would only be the case in safe situations, as it wouldn't be nice to send a woman ahead into danger.
Hearing the usual greeting on a train, I started wondering if there is already an established alternative to "Ladies and Gentlemen" that is applicable beyond the male/female classification. (For ex...
The metrical pattern of "ladies and gentlemen" consists of (arguably) two dactyls. A dactyl is a group of three syllables where the first is stressed and the second two are unstressed.
10 Apart from guys, which is fine and the most obvious choice, as others have mentioned, you could use ladies, which has a tinge of both irony and flattery. Most women appreciate this. Ladies is best accompanied by slightly exaggerated punctilio if the speaker is a man.
