Use of Madam -" Madame" -Slight OT

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 87075

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Thren <thren at s...> wrote:

> Thren:
> 
> She's not  'madam', she's  'Madame'. There's a difference. There's no 
> distinction between 'Mrs' and 'madam' in French- Madame fulfills both 
> functions (to the best of my knowledge). I get called 'madame' in 
> shops about as often as I get called 'mademoiselle' (Miss). 

bboy_mn:

Just curious, how do the French pronounce 'Madame'?

Medame - very short 'E' sound on the first 'A', long 'A', silent 'E'.
Almost like saying 'my dame' implying 'my lady'.

Mademeeee - with significant pronounciation of the last long 'E'

Mademaaaa - common pronunciation with last 'E' taking on a soft 'A' sound

MaaaaDaaaam - heavy on the somewhat short 'A's.

Madaaaam - short first 'A', long second 'A', no pronunciation of last 'E'.

Madem - common American with a slighly blunted second 'A', which would
be the same as Madam.

Medam - very short 'E' sound on the first 'A', last 'A' as in the
common pronunciation of 'dam', last 'E' is silent.
I know it's difficult to infer pronuncitation without inflection
characters (long & short vowels, etc...).

OTHER?

Just curious.

bboy_mn