Lady In Waiting Costume

Dayton Daily News: 2-year-old girl gets letter from Queen of England’s Lady-in-Waiting after costume photos go viral

She received a letter from Queen Elizabeth’s Lady-in-Waiting. Jalayne Sutherland’s Halloween costume was such a smash, she gained worldwide fame, even receiving a letter from Queen Elizabeth II’s Lady ...

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2-year-old girl gets letter from Queen of England’s Lady-in-Waiting after costume photos go viral

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.

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.

etymology - "Look, lady", "Listen, lady" – lady as a pejorative ...

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single word requests - Is there an opposite gender for "lady ...

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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 ...