[HPforGrownups] Re: Use of Madam -" Madame" -Slight OT

[Thren]

No: HPFGUIDX 87085

>bboy_mn:
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>Just curious, how do the French pronounce 'Madame'?
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>Almost like saying 'my dame' implying 'my lady'.


Thren:

It is 'my lady', all smushed together. The masculine equivalent 
('monsieur') is 'my lord'. Interesting, innit? :)

Madame is more or less 'madam' with stress on the second syllable. If 
you pronounce the 'dam' as in 'damn', and not 'dem' or 'dum'. So, 
ma-DAMN is more like it. Es are never pronounced when at the end of a word.