What's with everyone writing 'Mom?'

[Ottersmith]

Why is everyone writing Mom in their thread instead of 'mum'? Are you American? Are you from the Midlands? If neither of these then stop doing it. It's everywhere and it's so annoying.

Yup.

Plus, the same thread comes up on here on a regular basis.

Just wait until OP learns that some people in NI and many posh people still refer to their mother as 'Mummy', even when they're well into adulthood!

Next we'll be told that outwith isn't a proper word.

That somehow reminded me of the scene in Bridget Jones, where she has to introduce Mr Fitzherbert

Then get off mn and your problem is solved.

Interesting. All my Irish family say Mammy

The death notice page in our local paper recently had 'Mom' for every single reference on a particular day. I wonder if that new person got fired. It's very much Mam or Mum where I live. Definitely no Moms.

And that 'gotten' - which appears nearly two dozen times in the King James Bible, published in Britain 165 years before the USA came into existence - is a modern lazy neologism that we've all only just started using because we've heard it in American TV programmes!

I'm In Lancashire and every body I know (bar maybe two or three people) say high school

Even on the primary school newsletters it will say high school applications are open now etc

Scottish people are not real then?

The name “High School” was introduced in the States by immigrant Scots. We’re still saying it.

We call it high school where I live in Scotland. Have done since as far back as I can remember and I'm now at the older end of middle aged. Perfectly normal here.

It's an Americanism, like "What's with..."

We only started saying mom since mom jeans came into fashion. UK retailers knew people wouldn't be looking online for mum jeans, so they called them mom jeans like they do in the states to get maximum hits. I had literally never heard mom before this.

@Ottersmith I'm 44, my 'mum' left when I was under 5, I have 3 memories of her.

My step MOM (born and raised in, and since moved back to, America) raised me. Sorry if that offends you

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Kids do say Mammy (and it's Glammy Mammy here not Yummy Mummy😁). Some adults say Mammy too. Most switch to Mam which is sometimes pronounced Mom, maybe because the Irish version is spelt Mamaí and pronounced (something close to) Mommy.

I have raised one of those NI adults 🤣

The use of the term "high school"
in the US can be traced directly back to the Royal High School in Edinburgh.

I say high school. Maybe it's a Scottish thing?

Most secondary schools in Scotland are high schools.

And called that by 'real people' cause it's their name.

Come on now - I'm in the US those in the Southern US call grandmothers memaw.

yep me too- the schools are all called X High School.

I say Senior School sometimes as a habit I picked up from my mum- she is a) posh and b) from the fens- I don’t know if that is why she says senior rather than high.

I do find it interesting- my mum also calls primary school junior school, which makes sense- junior and senior. Equally some people say ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’, which makes sense.

But I don’t know anyone who says ‘low’ school to pair with ‘high’ school

But we teach three year olds that people can use whatever title for their parents they wish, and we don't judge or comment.

It IS a title and I’ve defiantly earned it! Mom and proud, especially in a sea of Mums where I live.

It really isn't.

It is also used in many parts of America, but has always been used in many parts of the UK.

In Worcestershire, schools are called High Schools. They have First School, then Middle School, then High School. I'm fairly sure they are the only County with that system.

I went to a high school in the 70s ! UK !

Honestly I couldn’t get worked up about something like this, how does it affect you?

i live just outside of Liverpool. You would probably not like the way most people say “me mum” or some say “me ma” which I despise.

im 46 and call my mum “mummy” and my 13yr old dd calls me “mama” and I’m not posh.

there are tons of American phrases/words that have crept in our vocabulary lately- hella/on the daily/you guys etc.
it’s how language evolves.