Sir,-I am sorry "A Woman" (Auck. land) objects to the word "lady". After telling us that a "lady, according to the Anglo-Saxon is one who kneads* or di bread" (and what highef appellation could one wish for?) she says that the word for her "smacks too much of lavender (or moth balls), and old lace." If that is her association it certainly is not mine, nor, I am sure, that of the majority. Perhaps if we instructed our girls a little more in the decorum that befits a lady we would not have any defaulters below the standard.
ONE OF THEM
(Hataitai).
*Should it not be kneads or gives bread?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 185, 8 January 1943, Page 3
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