British Accent Clarification

So I'm watching Casino Royal.   
 
I just wanted some clarity on the issue - do those British speaking persons pronounce "ma'am" like "mum?" 
 
Daniel Craig is British (from what I understand) so its not like he's a bloody American butchering the wonderful tongue or anything...

Are you sure you're watching Casino Royale, or Quantum of Solace? Mitchel from Quantum sounded like he said mum when he said ma'am.

Mum mammy ma maw{the correct spelling of the ma that pakie calls his ma in Gta 4}. its all good and by ma'am i presume you mean madam. Its rude to shorthen a titile.
 
But to the question in hand no idea google it.

No, it's pronounced - "marm"  
 
Ma'am is a respectful address which is only used when addressing females of seniority. 

Okay, just for a little extra clarification on this there is no such thing as "British speaking persons". Craig is from England and so has a typical English accent but Great Britain also includes Scotland and Wales with both the Scottish and the Welsh having very distinctively different accents and that's without even getting into the details of the various different regional accents.

It is pronounced 'Marm' as Linkyshinks said and Gamer_152 is right about the huge variety of accents within the UK, so saying British accent is like me saying American accent when I know that people from say Washington for example sounds nothing like someone from Alabama, talk to someone from Yorkshire and they sound like they're from a completely different country to someone from London even though you can drive there in around 3 or 4 hours

ma'am is correctly pronounced mahm, anyone pronouncing it any other way is worng.
So Says The Leader

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Okay, just for a little extra clarification on this there is no such thing as "British speaking persons". Craig is from England and so has an English accent but Great Britain also includes Scotland and Wales with both the Scottish and the Welsh having very distinctively different accents.

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Ah bonds quintessential British oxford accent... marm is more slang its not officially a word 
its is an american mispronounciation of the term ma'am, which in turn is an English colloquial derivative of the English term of address "madam" 

You want hear some great  accents?  Go see a few Guy Ritchie movies.  I suggest Snatch, although Brad Pitt isn't really a Brit.  But, this guy is a real "pikey".  Rex Harrison remarked that the Yanks hadn't been using the mother tongue for years, but it was Eliza Doolittle who offended his ears most of all.   As Gamer_152 said, a country can have many dialects so you can't assume that any one actor represents for an entire people.  Look at Michael Caine and Hugh Grant.  Both are Londoners but both sound very different when speaking.

"But, this guy is a real "pikey"."

i always thought they jokingly referred to her as 'mum' in the film intentionally. She certainly knows how to act like Daniel Craig's mum, that's for sure.

" So I'm watching Casino Royal.    I just wanted some clarity on the issue - do those British speaking persons pronounce "ma'am" like "mum?"  Daniel Craig is British (from what I understand) so its not like he's a bloody American butchering the wonderful tongue or anything... "

Yeah I'm pretty sure in the part you're talking about he actually does say 'mum' (as in mother), as a joke.  She just got done telling him off right?

Scottish here. When referring to my mother I use the word "Mum" as most Scottish people do. The word "Ma'am" is short for "Madam" and I can tell you that we never really use either of those for anyone. 

" @Binman88:   Then the video title is misleading.  I stand corrected.  Which then leads me to ask, what does a "pikey" sound like? "

...there is not British accent . Its a English accent .

Well, I say Ma'am as it's spelled. Also, we all know the Queen.

" @brndedhero: LOL You say American accent as a US only accent, but America is a continent with many languages. We have spanish and portuguese for example. America is not a country, The United States is a country that is part of America, the continent "

In Crysis Warhead, Psycho pronounced it the same way.

" Yeah I'm pretty sure in the part you're talking about he actually does say 'mum' (as in mother), as a joke.  She just got done telling him off right? "

" @MrTea said:

" @brndedhero: LOL You say American accent as a US only accent, but America is a continent with many languages. We have spanish and portuguese for example. America is not a country, The United States is a country that is part of America, the continent "

General American is known as an accent. Where as "General British" is not because people have been situated in Britain for a long time and thus have gained many many different accents as a result. No need to overcomplicate things, it's just General American makes more sense than general British. "

I always thought it was pronounced "mum" and the first time I noticed it was on farscape where captain brace referred to commandant grayza as "mum" .

" @JonathanMoore said:

" @MrTea said:

" @brndedhero: LOL You say American accent as a US only accent, but America is a continent with many languages. We have spanish and portuguese for example. America is not a country, The United States is a country that is part of America, the continent "

General American is known as an accent. Where as "General British" is not because people have been situated in Britain for a long time and thus have gained many many different accents as a result. No need to overcomplicate things, it's just General American makes more sense than general British. "

Isn't it everyone else who is over complicating things?  If you're going to live by semantics, then you will die by them as well. "

" ma'am is correctly pronounced mahm, anyone pronouncing it any other way is worng.
So Says The Leader "

As for accents, I'm quite proud of my relatively Oxford English accent. On topic, Mum is, as I'm sure you know, shorthand for Mother, which despite having an 'O' in there is pronounced like it has a 'U' instead. So I suppose that's where it comes from. Ma'am... I haven't heard that in ages. Probably since I last watched Casino Royale.

Yeh I always find it a bit strange Americans always call it the British Accent, and call us British, when we never refer to ourselves as that, English, Scottish and Welsh etc, is just a lot more specific, and easier to tell where someone comes from then, much more than just a British accent and living in Britain for example :p

It's pronounce marm

mum and ma'am are kind of different words.