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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
madam and ma'am
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00 ma'am should be the same as madam, only pronounced without the "d", right? 02 br
00 Well, at the beginning of a letter we can write "Dear sir or madam", is that "madam" pronounced with the "d"? 02 br
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00 ma'am should be the same as madam, only pronounced without the "d", right? 02 br
00 Well, at the beginning of a letter we can write "Dear sir or madam", is that "madam" pronounced with the "d"? 02 br
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00 is that "madam" pronounced with the "d"? 12 blockquote10 Yes! It rhymes with 01 i 00 Adam 02 i 00 . 02 br
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01 cite 10 CalifJim 12 cite 10 Yes! It rhymes with 11 i 10 Adam 12 i 10 . 12 br110id
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10 Makes me think of a famous palindrome, 11 b 10 "Madam, I'm Adam" 12 b 15 0 12 br
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0 I don't really know why I had doubts about that, I guess it's because I usually hear "ma'am", like in "Excuse me ma'am". 02 br
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00 Anyway, now I know it's like Adam, as in "Morning ma'am, my name is Adam, Adam Atom." --- "How many Adams are there?" 02 br
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00 Anyway, now I know it's like Adam, as in "Morning ma'am, my name is Adam, Adam Atom." --- "How many Adams are there?" 02 br
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0 I usually hear "ma'am" pronounced like it rhymes with "ram." But with a Southern American accent in particular, it can be "may-am" - but sometimes not always two distinct syllables, but some how "pulled out" more maaahm. (Because I was a naval officer, I was called "ma'am" a LOT.) 0-
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0 With a Southern accent it's [ mæ:j@m ] . Many dialects tense /æ/ before nasals, so it comes out as [ e@ ] . 0-
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0 In the UK, the Queen gets called Ma'am (rhymes with arm). In the police force and the navy (or at least on telly), it gets shortened to sound more like mum or mam. 02 br
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00 An older woman might sometimes get called madam in shops or other formal and deferential settings. 0-
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00 An older woman might sometimes get called madam in shops or other formal and deferential settings. 0-
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0 >> In the UK, the Queen gets called Ma'am (rhymes with arm) 02 <<
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00 Unless, you actually say your r's. In which case, I wouldn't recommend pronouncing it like that. lol. 0-
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00 Unless, you actually say your r's. In which case, I wouldn't recommend pronouncing it like that. lol. 0-
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