Memere means grand-mother for french canadians
Memere means grand-mother for french canadians
It is Memere and it is French
The French Canadian word for grandmother is "grand-mère".
You might be referrening to the French-Canadian term for Grandmother - Memere.
Oui. Pépère et Mémère .
i have no idea how to spell it, but my memere always called it (phonetically) por-teh shoe-mah See the related link for Pâté chinois.
so funny my nieces call my mother, their grand mother, mi miI can tell you for one for sure: French Canadian.All my grandmothers were "Mémé" and all my grandfathers were "Pépé".The terms even crossed over to my non-french-canadian side to go on for generations!We also "Memere and Pepere" pronounced as Meme and Pepe
Colette Courtois has: Performed in "First Performance" in 1955. Played Corinne in "Le survenant" in 1956. Played Corinne in "Marie-Didace" in 1958. Played Jeannette Gendron in "CF-RCK" in 1959. Performed in "Bien dans sa peau" in 1976. Played Memere Tchewan in "Coyote" in 1992. Played La soeur in "Madame le consul" in 1996. Performed in "Bijou de famille" in 2002.
One way to say it is...Bonjour mes memere.... which means Hello , our grandmother..." Now the way to pronounce that as an English speaker would be... Bonjour = Think of the word 'bomb' and just take the 'b-o" from that ...think of a drunk guy saying "Zsure Officer, I'm not drunk..."then add the two halves almost saying bow as in bow & arrow, then quitting halfway into the "w"....I know this doesnt type well in English, but many French words sound like slurred words in English. Now for the family members: Memere is grandmother pronounced .... mehmay pepere is grandfather pron...... peh-pay mataunte is my aunt pron....muh townt... just Townt for Aunt but 99% of the time the word "my" is added before saying Townt m'oncle is uncle pron....mun-ownk..... I think I spelled the french word wrong, though. frere is brother pronouced.... fr-aire l'enfant is the baby pron.... la-fant there are several dialects, and you may come across variations, like our Boston accents can turn 'yard' into yahd...stuff like that. !Au Revoir! (Goodbye...Pron: awe-revohr)
English with French being the second most spoken language in the home.The vast majority speak English, as NH is the second most Caucasian state in the country. A significant amount of New Hampshirites are also French speakers, making French the second most spoken language here. French speakers tend to speak with a Quebecois dialect, whereas in Maine there are many Acadian-French speakers. There is a high concentration of Francophones in the NH North Country, Les Grands Bois du Nord, as well as in the Cities of Manchester and Nashua. Although the amount of francophones in New Hampshire has declined as a percentage per capita, many people still use many French words like referring to grandparents as Memere and Pepere (pronounced MEM-may and PEP-pay), or calling slippers Pichous (pronounced: PEE-shoes).