Adam & Eve, ladies & gentlemen?
Adam & Eve, ladies & gentlemen? You may recall last week's post https://anupamaexcursions.blogspot.com/2021/09/sometimes-words-too-want-company.html Let me not keep the list of word pairs started last week unfinished. Funny thing is that once the order is accepted in lexicon, you use it as it is and not reverse it e.g., the bard wrote Romeo and Juliet , but we cannot say Juliet and Romeo and we always say ladies and gentlemen and not the other way round. Yes, I should put a disclaimer. This list is by no means complete. As language grows and evolves, expressions become more and more timely and contemporary. Without much ado I come to these binomial expressions which I have again tried to put in categories. Most of these are nouns. People It all started with Adam and Eve who were man and woman but there was no mention of love and marriage . Logically we are their children, so aren’t we all kith and kin (relatives)? Boys and girls, bride and groom, man / husba...