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Thread #125221   Message #2772476
Posted By: Mo the caller
24-Nov-09 - 07:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: Usage: -ess suffix for female operatives
Subject: RE: BS: Usage: -ess suffix for female operatives
I called for a Barn Dance last month for the Lord Mayor's Charity. This year Stoke on Trent's Lord Mayor is female which leads to various confused thoughts.
If a town has a mayor the wife of a mayor is a mayoress.
If the post is held by a woman she is a lady mayor and her husband is a ???
If the town has a lord mayor is the wife of a male lord mayor a lady mayoress, or a lord mayoress or what??
If the post is held by a woman she can't be a lady mayor, because that term is already used so is she a lady lord mayor?
And what is her husband?

Does anyone know? Maybe this should be a song challenge.

"I'mmm only a little lammmb sir"