Interesting, so when addressing the Queen specifically, it rhymes with "palm?" Or "mom?"Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
Here's a link with audio clips, male Canadian and male American.
Re: Ma'am as in ham or palm?
Interesting, so when addressing the Queen specifically, it rhymes with "palm?" Or "mom?"
Here's a link with audio clips, male Canadian and male American.
Be intent on loyalty
While others aspire to perform meritorious services
Concentrate on purity of intent
While those around you are beset by egoism
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Re: Ma'am as in ham or palm?
Protocol advises that one starts any conversation by addressing the Queen as "Your Majesty" and each subsequent time with Ma'am. Pronounced "maarm".
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
Re: Ma'am as in ham or palm?
Wrong way round - it's specifically Ma'am as in Ham, not the long vowel. As any phule no, Ma'am is a contraction of Madam, hence "ham".
Here's a link from Debretts, the ultimate etiquette guide.
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Re: Ma'am as in ham or palm?
Over in Tennessee Appalachia, protocol advises that one starts a conversation by pronouncing Ma'am like so.
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