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Originally Posted by Matt Q
So does that mean that the line: stood guard at the Ladies front door is understandable?
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You have "
Ladies room" now in that line, which is what Americans say; whatever word you swapped to add "room", it works. No need then to do anything more to this epithet after you add an apostrophe, that is, to make Ladies possessive, it being those
"womenfolks'" own room.
Best,
Erik
P.S. A slight nugget of cultural exchange. In the US, some there are who call the men's and women's restrooms the little girls' and little boys' room; and this, though as common as a diner, corny as a Rockwell painting, unoriginal as a forgery and folksy as a Sarah Palin, is intended as humour. Those who suffer themselves to say it often do so as if this commonplace were a clever thing that they themselves had just thought up. So much then for bathrooms.