AEE 2488: Lady or Miss? How to Refer to Strangers in English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all-Ears English podcast, episode 2488, Lady or Miss, how to refer to strangers in English.
0:10.3	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
0:19.1	We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection,
0:26.6	with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English
0:33.6	adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA. And to get your transcripts delivered
0:42.7	by email every week, go to all earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. When you address a female, should you say lady, should you say woman, should you say miss,
0:59.0	or should you avoid these and use something else?
1:02.0	Find out all of this and more today.
1:09.0	Do you often end up in situations where you know exactly what you want to say, but you don't have the English vocabulary words that you need in that moment?
1:19.7	To succeed in English, you need nuanced English vocabulary.
1:23.4	But first, you need to know your English level.
1:26.4	Take our free English level quiz to find out if you are B-1, B-2, or C-1.
1:32.6	Go to all-earsenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:36.6	That's all-eersenglish.com slash F-L-U-E-N-C-Y-S-C-O-R-E.
1:49.8	Hey, Aubrey, how's everything going?
1:52.0	I'm great, Lindsay.
1:53.0	How are you?
1:54.1	Good.
1:54.5	Glad to be back on Allers English here.
1:56.2	Aubrey, has anyone ever called you, ma'am?
1:59.8	Yes, I am getting to the age where it's more and more common for someone
2:04.2	to refer to me as ma'am i remember the days when it was always miss right right i know when they're
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