Dear Queenie,
When someone gets divorced their former spouse is referred to as their “ex”-husband or -wife. But what do you say when the person died? It seems wrong to talk about their “dead” husband or wife. So what do you say?—Verbal Etty Ket
Dear Etty Ket,
The common way to refer to any person who died is “late” – “the late Mr. or Mrs. So-and-so,” my (or her or his) “late” husband or wife or parent or sibling or child or whoever.
