You'd think, wouldn't you? But because it starts with a vowel, and because the French are obsessed with how smoothly things sound, it's always "mon amie."
When a feminine noun begins with a vowel, the masculine possessive is used in order to keep from saying something like "ma amie," where the flow of the sentence would be broken.
Now I feel like a total ass for bringing it up, but I felt obligated to prove I learned SOMETHING in three years of French. :P
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See: http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa102599.htm
When a feminine noun begins with a vowel, the masculine possessive is used in order to keep from saying something like "ma amie," where the flow of the sentence would be broken.
Now I feel like a total ass for bringing it up, but I felt obligated to prove I learned SOMETHING in three years of French. :P