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Fräulein is the diminutive form of Frau, which was previously reserved only for married women.Frau is in origin the equivalent of "My lady" or "Madam", a form of address of a noblewoman.
Honorifics are words that connote esteem or respect when used in addressing or referring to a person. In the German language, honorifics distinguish people by age, sex, profession, academic achievement, and rank.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
This list makes a distinction between the types because of the way German-speakers create, use and pronounce them. Abbreviations : German written abbreviations are often punctuated and are pronounced as the full word when read aloud, such as beispielsweise for bspw.
Thomas Jefferson University is apologizing after the names of some graduates from the nursing program were unrecognizably pronounced at their commencement, as seen in videos from the ceremony that ...
Mademoiselle de Scuderi. A Tale from the Times of Louis XIV (German: Das Fräulein von Scuderi. Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten) is a 1819 novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann which was first published in the Yearbook for 1820.
Fräulein is the German language honorific previously in common use for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English.. Fräulein may also refer to: "Fraulein" (song), a 1957 song
Thomas Jefferson University is apologizing after the names of graduates from the nursing program were unrecognizably pronounced at their commencement, as seen in viral videos.