BrianE wrote:

Mamou isn't really French btw. Think it's regional & can be an endearing name for mom, wife, or the Matriach.

TypewriterGuy wrote:

Just saying Brian, mom is mere in french. (WIth accents, but I dont have a french keyboard)

Well.... Yes and no actually.

Acadian (Cajun) is a pidgin language so it's a mix. (We had to go to court to get 'recognized' btw. Ha!)

Anyway...

"Mother" can be a form of address or (as you've said) a noun.

Address: "Maman ! Je suis home !" ---> "Mom! I'm home!"

Noun: "Avez-vous vu ma mère ?" ----> "Have you seen my mother?"

More likely though we'd use Mamou.

"Je veux ma mamou ! Wah !" ---> "I want my mommy! Wah!"

To add to the confusion mamou can also be a place. Grand Mamou is a song where a man wants his lady love to come back to him in the 'big city.'  Kind of a joke since Mamou Louisiana might have 3,000 people in it.

The sprawling metropolis of Mamou! "What you say boy! We off the rig, got some money an we goin' to Mamou! Is reeel big... Not like Beaumont. Blink and you miss it!  Ha!"

Santé ! (Cheers!)

Brian

Don't know about Uwe (maybe has them memorized)  but in case anyone is wondering...

Need a keyboard with numeric keypad and a chart (unless you have photographic memory.)

Alt-Key + Four Digit Chart:

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html

Wasn't 'seafoam' the manufacturer's name for the colour though? It specifically applies to Hermes. 

Thoese colours are a hipster disaster. I found out only recently that at one stage Urban Outfitters were selling typewriters, fetishising them as 'vintage' etc etc; this was really the writing on the wall, I think. I saw a Baby recently being advertised on eBay for abotu £60, 'as sold by Urban Outfitters'. It was relisted twice and last I noticed hadn't sold. And Etsy's even worse.