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About ladies and gentlemen
Ladies and gentlemen is a salutation and irreversible binomial used in the field of entertainment, sports and theatre since the 19th century. The salutation is unlike most English-language gendered irreversible binomials which typically place the male term before the female term. Before the 19th century, the terms "gentil men and ladies" and "gentlemen and ladies" were more common, and according to prevalence in 18th-century newspapers and usage in the Oxford English Dictionary, the shift in popularity to the form "ladies and gentlemen" occurred during the late 18th century.
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