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Pretty3
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Hi,
I have read the summary of The Merchant of Venice .
The characters are written in this way: Mackbeth , wife Lady Macbeth.
How can we use the word Lady ?? Can we use it before any husband �s name ??
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28 Feb 2011
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britishschwa
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Hellooooooooo hellooo!
..."Lady" is also the customary title of the wife of a baronet or knight, but in this case with neither the article nor Christian name: "Lady" with the surname of the husband only, Sir John and Lady Smith. When a woman divorces a knight and he marries again, the new wife will be Lady Smith while the ex-wife becomes Jane, Lady Smith.
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28 Feb 2011
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libertybelle
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No, you can �t.
Lady is her title.
Macbeth is a general and a thane which is a freeman granted land by the king in return for his military service. I don �t know if that title still exists, but Lady Di was a Lady because she belonged to royalty in some way or another.
Other classes were called Mister, Master and Mrs.
Today a Lady goes by her first name - Lady Di etc.
Perhaps in the old days they went by their husband �s first or last name.
Most often the title of Lady went with the man�s title of Lord.
Like a dukes and duchess - baron and baroness - prince and princess. etc.
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28 Feb 2011
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Pretty3
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Thanks a lot for your explanations |
28 Feb 2011
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almaz
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�Lady Muck � is the name given in the UK to a pretentious woman who swanks around full of airs and graces and thinks she �s better than everyone else.
(I think it �s also a Kiwi vacuum cleaner - which is funny as well as different and noice)
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28 Feb 2011
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Read this extract from