The word is ma'am.

Not maam. Not mam. Not m'aam or m'am or maa'm or ma'm. Ma'am.

The apostrophe indicates a deleted sound. For example, can't indicates that you skipped the o in not. Fro' indicates that you skipped the m in from. Ma'am is a form of the word madam, which used to not have the meaning it sometimes has today. GET IT RIGHT!

This has been a public service announcement from CAP, the Committee for Apostrophe Protection.

An article on Maurice Sendak

Here.

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It's nearly May

Nearly baby-birthday time. If any of you have come into a windfall, and want to waste money on the kids of people you never know...

One wishlist for books.
One for toys.

I'm done now.

OH WOW COOL!

Well, not that cool. But pretty cool. This guy has walked every block in Lower Manhattan. That's... a lot.

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I want honeysuckle by my window. Whee, tangent!