To cringe when i hear people calling their mum " mammy" ?

[Mummy2Bookie]

I lived in Ireland a few years ago ( down south, countryside) and I never got used to people, both children and adults, calling their mum " mammy". In my experience it only seems to be a " down south countryside" things. I could be wrong but I never encountered it in Dublin or other areas in the northern part of the republic. It makes me cringe everytime I hear it. Even mam sounds better than mammy.

People cringe a lot it seems!

Nothing wrong with culchie. Unless you are trying to argue there is? Isn't that snobbish?

I'm from 'down south in the countryside' as are my family and we use 'mummy'.
DP is from up north (yorkshire) in the city, as are all his family and he calls his mum 'mam' or 'mammy'.

Not sure where you got the southern countryside generalisation from?!
Oh and the only other two families I know who use 'mammy' and aren't in the NE are from Ireland and Wales.
I think it sounds nice and also means I don't get called the same thing as MIL! :)

What does culchie mean?

i jsut wanted to use the word culchie!

I cringe when I see cutesy mummy user names on MN tbh

welsh bird here, i always called my mum mammy when i was little and lived in Wales. Even now she signs cards 'mam'. I don't call her mam anymore, lost the habit when we moved to England.

Oh Ok I was too quick to jump there DB

Culchie means country person, often used in a derogatory sense like 'yokel' or 'redneck' but being reclaimed by us culchies and used with pride.

Personally I think it's lovely for young children to call their mum mummy/mammy but I think it's weird to hear adults call their mum mammy/mummy.

I know someone (Northern Irish) and they are all grown-ups who call their mum Mummy. I think it's a bit strange, but that is just my opinion!

arf@ reclaiming culchie. you could have a 'culchie pride' march through the streets of dublin, all irish dancing and chanting lots of th words

That's All-Ireland day you are thinking of, DB

Or we could have a D4 day where everyone goes to "Trinners" for the day with Fintan, Fiachra and Uachtar Reoite..

Fuck off with your culchie shite.....

Its always been Mam and Dad, we live in Ireland ffs, its not like its a new thing

"Mammy" and "Mam" is the Irish version for Mum.
I gather friends from Dublin and some cities adopt the English version "Mummy" and "Mum". And American friends use "Mommy" and "Mom"; French, Italian and Spanish friends use "Mama", never Mum. And Chinese use "Ma". It's partly to do with how the mother tongue in those parts sounds, or the accent, like the Geordie accent.

If it annoys you - sorry Mayorquimby and Mummy2Bookie - it may that your cultural experiences are limited, or that when young you were somehow discouraged from using that word (? why? - because it didn't sound upwardly mobile enough?? maybe you have to go back to your teachers and family members to find out why?) Let's hope you kept your opinions to yourself - if you voiced them, then yes, I do think it's unreasonable - and rude.

I'm a culchie and I'm Mama. How cringey is that?
Thats what they picked though so thats fine with me. Mammy always makes me think of the traditional Irish Mammy with the perm and pinnie (not that it is that, just what it calls to my mind), and Mum and Mummy is just too english, and Mom and Mommy is too American...so Mama it is. I'm sure they'll be calling me someting else by their teens though, probably "the auld wan"

ps OP, we're having a nice conversation for ourselves, how about you feck off to shite?

Mom is a Midlands term too.

Hmm, a d4 day.

I like your manifesto
Let's put it to the testo

Just to tell you how hard it is to find Mother's Day cards or mother's birthday cards with anything other than mum or mummy in the UK. Finally found one in Dublin (the only one) published by Hallmark (not Irish or Welsh company!)that said "Mam" after trawling 2 other shops! It was for MIL's birthday - I felt it was appropriate to get it right on the card as it was a significant birthday (on the decade). Anyone who knows if any internet retailers do cards that use "Mam" instead of "Mum" or "Mummy", do send us the link.

P.S. Yes, there is a lot of cringeing today. What would make me cringe (if you call it that) is people or children calling their parents by their first names. It's a mark of respect to use Mum or Mother, even if you are 60. Mummy might raise a smile or giggle, but not a cringe.

I better trademark D4 day...at least before Ross-O Carroll-Kelly gets his hands on it....

Yes you are.

"If it annoys you - sorry Mayorquimby and Mummy2Bookie - it may that your cultural experiences are limited, or that when young you were somehow discouraged from using that word (? why? - because it didn't sound upwardly mobile enough?? maybe you have to go back to your teachers and family members to find out why?) Let's hope you kept your opinions to yourself - if you voiced them, then yes, I do think it's unreasonable - and rude."

Didn't voice it to anyone, it's just something I always hated the sound of. The same way there are parts of Ireland where people say "I bet x at tennis" when they mean beat.
Just a personal annoyance. I never used the word to be discouraged from it. It's no great issue in my life, someone else fagged their dislike of the word and I agreed that I have a similar irrational dislike of the word.

Oh and we already have a D4 day, it's SCT with mini-ones every time Leinster are at home. Like tomorrow. Can't wait. A few scoops in Kiely's then on to the RDS

*SCT final day

What parts/posts do you think are xemophobic or racist in particular?