Eg. "a lady came into the shop earlier and asked me..."
"I met a lady in the library who..."
Not the greatest examples, but I keep hearing this in a simpering, mincing, totally non-sarcastic kind of way- generally from social-climbing types who are anxious to sound 'polite'. Please, please do not let us go down the American route of perceiving the word woman as a kind of belittling slur. It shouldn't be.
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to hate when people say 'lady' instead of just saying woman
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paintandbrush · 09/05/2016 19:43
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