Timeline for Difference between "lady" and "woman"?
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| Oct 14, 2015 at 17:02 | comment | added | Adam | "Cleaning lady" is much more common on the west coast of the U.S. Ngrams shows an interesting shift from woman to lady beginning in the 1970's books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 1:01 | comment | added | user6951 | I do not not where you come from, but in the southern USA we have cleaning women not cleaning ladies. Also, I find it hard to follow your second paragraph, possibly because I have no idea what you mean by a female migrating(?) from a woman to a lady simply by marriage...I have a feeling you and I are of different English-speaking cultures. And we value our fine women in the South. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 23:08 | history | answered | Stan Rogers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |