To ask if you're British why would you spell 'Mum' as 'Mom'

[MoonStar07]

#firstworldproblem! Does my head in it's Mum! Mummy etc not Mom. Point made. Thanks

[CarcerDun]

Aye.

[crazycanuck]

I think I saw on here that some northerners say mom.

[ClopySow]

I know two people who do this. Where we come from we say mam. It is odd.

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeG0es]

It's a Birmingham thing.

[sparechange]

It's what people from the Midlands would say, isn't it?
Like Irish people like say 'mammy'

[CwtchMeQuick]

From Birmingham, we say mom. Really don't see how anyone could get wound up by it

[MoonStar07]

I see it on Facebook on selling pages 'Can anyone make my 75 year old Mom a Birthday cake?!' Etc Mum Mum Mum!

[AmeliaJack]

People from the Birmingham area say Mom and have done for a very long time.

[liz70]

Regional variation. It isn't "Mum" everywhere in the UK anyway. Mam, anyone?

[babymouse]

You'll spell it mom if your from the Midlands. Regional variation and all that.

Or you have an American mom. ;)

[JagerPlease]

It's a regional dilect thing - plenty of people in the Midlands use Mom, just in the same way Mam tends to be used more in the North

[MoonStar07]

Oh I didn't realise that I thought people were trying to be American. So in Birmingham they say Mom? Or spell Mom?

[AmeliaJack]

Or possibly the person is American or has an Anerican Mother. Why would you care?

[LucyBabs]

There are many people in Ireland who say Mom.. In my part we say Mammy and then Mam or Ma..
What's the issue moonstar ?

[HunterHearstHelmsley]

It's mom in the Midlands. I do say/write mum however.

[MoonStar07]

I get Mam. Mom just annoys me.

[HunterHearstHelmsley]

People not getting regional variations annoys me.

[ClopySow]

The people i know who say it are from NE Scotland

[UmbongoUnchainedInAPearTreeeee]

I had a thread about this a while ago. Turns out it's just a regional thing.

I know what you mean though.

[LucyBabs]

Me too hunter the anti American thing on MN annoys me too..

[HoneyDragon]

It's in British dialect, I'm near enough Birmingham and an American airbase so it's fairly commonly seen.

[myrtleWilson]

Another Birmingham girl here standing shoulder to shoulder with her fellow moms in the face of unexpected levels of wound -upness....

[liz70]

"Point made."

What point have you made, exactly? I wasn't aware that there were rules dictating what people call their female parents. They can call them whatever they choose.

[JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel]

If you are from Birmingham it's mom.

[JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel]

So yes, you are Being Unreasonable, since you asked.