Do you say Mum or Mom and where do you come from?

[Flossflower]

I apologise if this has been done before. I have always said Mum or Mummy and thought everyone did. On these threads I often see Mom or Mommy. I know this is the US version but it seems that it is more than that. I have assumed these posts have been written by AI or similar using US English but maybe that is not the case so please can you tell me what you call your mother and where you are from.

Ar Muh !

Bristolian.

Irish and I'd write Mam but pronounce it Mom as that's how it's said in the Irish language.

Most children here say Mammy though and that's pronounced as it would be in English. The Irish version is Mamaí (pronounced quite like Mommy).

Mom Black Country.

@Flossflower you assume someone who says mom is AI? Not one of the 4 million people from your own country who use a slightly different word from you? Either you’re an ignorant idiot (I have severely moderated there!), a wind up merchant, or an AI bot yourself!

And while I’m at it, fucking educate yourself about “Americanisms” and where the actual bloody hell you think they come from. I really do despair.

Irish here. I say Mom. It's from "a mham" in the Irish language. There's a map somewhere on the internet of the Mom/Mum/Mam breakdown in Ireland. I'd say it 1/3, 1/3, 1/3

No true, it's Mom for me (written as Mam though).

Mum. London.

Mom. I'm from Birmingham. It is a West Midlands thing!

East Midlands, always called my own mother "Mam". My AC call me Mum or Ma

I say mum, though in my home country we say mom.

I think quite often it’s just autocorrect. My phone often corrects my British spellings with American ones. 🙄

Can you believe posters who are from the Midlands and say they say 'mom', now?

Mom. I'm from Birmingham

I’m from South West, raised in South East and now rural East Mids. It’s Mum, Mummy in all the places I have lived.

I associate Mom with Birmingham though.

Yes I can now. I genuinely have never seen a Mothering Sunday card in the UK that said Mom on it. Perhaps they send them all to the midlands.

West Midlands. I was always Mummy or Mum but school and influence of other kids have now made me Mom. My boys generally write Mum but pronunciation errs towards Mom. My girl definitely calls me Mom and writes it too. School-made mother's day cards default to Mom. Not an Americanism, it's regional.
My own mother has always been Mum to me, but she's from Worcestershire, and my Dad was from London, so despite growing up here that influence prevailed I think.

I'm from North Shropshire and I say Mom and the kids call me Mommy but I spell it as Mum/Mummy. My mum says mom, writes mum but calls her own mum mam

I grew up just east of Edinburgh and say mum. People there generally say mum when speaking to her but when speaking about her, you’d say ‘my ma’.

I live in Glasgow now and it’s pretty much the same, except people here refer to ‘my maw’, rather than ma.

I'm Coventry, West Mids and grew up saying Mum. EXH from 20 miles up the road in Brum says Mom.

Shropshire, and I say mom. The majority of my school friends say mom too.

Dublin, although originally from the north west and I say Mum/Mummy, as do my Dublin-born children. My husband says Ma.

Is it not just regionally some pronounce it ‘mom’ but it’s still actually mum?

I lived for a lot of my childhood in Birmingham (Harbourne)

Well, if your parents were from the SE, and you were temporarily living in Harborne, then they wouldn't have wanted you to grow up with a Brummie accent, so it is quite likely they "corrected" your 'Mom' to 'Mum' in the same way that if I were bringing my dc up in Sough or somewhere, I would "correct" my dc if they came home with the local way of making a "th" sound into a "fv" sound.
Mom is the way Midlanders say it.
But, as so many have said, "Mam" is another variation. Had you heard of that ?

Mum, grew up in Shropshire but moved as teenager and lived in many different places including abroad.

My mom is Canadian. I was raised in Toronto and New York. I use mom. Dc say mum or mummy. Every mothers day I get a card to mommy though. When teaching dc to write basic sight words before reception I accidentally taught mommy without even thinking. That took some unpicking. We live in Surrey

Mum but lots also say mam