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Representing a pronunciation of French m'aider, from venez m'aider 'come and help me.'
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They told me when I was a kid that it meant 'máidez' [help me] which was an English bungled attempt at a French phrase, bungled because any French speaker would say 'aidez-moi'. But why, then, wouldn't the English speakers simply shout 'Help!'?
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