Ladies and men naked and having sex. 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' Closed 13 years ago. " "Ladies Beer" is written using "ladies" as an adjective, and does not imply ownership as explicitly. You can address one specifically the rest as a group like Dear 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. 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? Both "Ladies' Beer" and "Ladies Beer" are acceptable, but there is a slightly different implication depending on which you use. Apr 27, 2016 · The metrical pattern of "ladies and gentlemen" consists of (arguably) two dactyls. Ladies is the plural form of lady, so the apostrophe goes to the right - ladies'. Feb 22, 2019 · The plural possessive is "ladies'. It's fine to say Good morning folks though. A dactyl is a group of three syllables where the first is stressed and the second two are unstressed. Ladies is best accompanied by slightly exaggerated punctilio if the speaker is a man. ui5xt gr9zdh zxm pn qeis xirz rulb 3y7 1a nktfh1j