(11-28-2015, 06:39 AM)Valence Wrote: Out of curiosity, where does the word "ser" comes from? Not just game of thrones, right?Ser is most often used when gender and proper title are not actually known, so it's perfectly fine for female consumption as well as male.
Does it have any basis in history, like its probable old french mirror "sire"?
As to the previous topic, I imagine it might just be a shift in persons or how they're treating someone to shift from Ser to Lady. Like Jim might call her Ser and Bill might call her Lady, or Jim decided that things had shifted and decided to call her Lady instead of Ser from now on.
But! Ser is still an acceptable term for females.
Lyse 
