Ma and Pa

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Anyone else call their parents this?

I've just started chatting to a guy OLD and he says this. It's not a regional thing here (Manchester).

No it's not common in Manchester is it? We're more mam / mum & dad.

He says he's from Greater Manchester (Wigan) but I've never heard anyone say it!

My parents (WW11 children) used ma and Pa

In Manchester?

Is he Lupin Pooter?

I’ve only heard it in Little House on the Prairie!
Where does he live? Not a regional thing round here either.

He lives near Wigan.

That's exactly what I used to call mine! It started off as a bit of a joke, and . then became the norm.

Ma is quite normal in Dublin.

Yes my mum was from Manchester 😀

Maybe he's got Irish roots.

I'm starting to think he's a bit pretentious tbh. A few other things have cropped up.

Very commonly used in Liverpool. Although it's more ' Me Ma and Da' rather than 'My Mum and Dad'.

William and Harry call Prince Charles "Pa."

My dad and his brothers did, he was in South Wales as a young child but then Essex/Cambs as a teen.

That's what we called our grandparents (also Nw).

We don't say Ma and Pa in Wales.

I’m from wigan and I also say ma and pa. It started out as a joke but now I call it them almost all the time.

See this is what I did. Abs then it stuck!

Do you mean ma pronounced maw? The Dublin ma is flat more like mah.

My children call me ma. They call their father pa. We are Herefordshire.

Not sure. We're only messaging atm.

I mean if you're having second thoughts because you don't like what he calls his parents, I'd walk away now

This is what DS calls me and his father. Don't really remember how it happened, neither of us called our parents that, but it stuck. (we're in Kent, originally from London and the NE.)

You may want to read my comments. HTH.

Hmmm he could be my ex boyfriend. Bit pretentious, says ma and pa . Can't see him living in Wigan but anything's possible!

If his initials are TO and he's about 43 then avoid he's a twat