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.

I disagree with the OP but is no-one ever allowed to not like something from somewhere else? Is that banned now?

You can see that none of the people from the place she was complaining about actually needed someone to come in and cry xenophobe at her?

You're right, it doesn't make it bad or stupid, but why not just say so instead of the rest?

But surely then disliking something different or from another culture doesn't make it xenophobic or racist. Just means you don't like it.
And in this thread in particular it's me who doesn't like something from my own culture.
However I could give examples of things from different cultures, such as some americanisms, which I hate but doesn't make me xenophobic.
I hate the way Americans say "I could care less" and I think it sounds stupid, this doesn't mean I'm xenophobic of Americans, it just means there's one aspect of their culture which I don't like.
Similarly I wouldn't criticise anyone who was from France/Germany/Ghana/Samoa etc if they criticised the tendancy towards excessive drinking prevelant in Irish culture as being xenophobic for disliking a diffference between our cultures.

I have two Mothers (lesbians, gasp), one I call Mummy, and one I call Mam (she's Irish) and we lived there for a good while when my brother and I were growing up.

It's personal preference, and that's how it should be. I'm a north easterner too, me and my siblings called our mother 'mam', but my own kids call me mum/mummy, simply because I want to separate myself from my own mother (long story) and because I prefer the sound of 'mum'.

We have lots of names for family members, I had two grans, a grandad and a grand-da, but nanna is really popular here for grandmother, and other people say grandma. Different strokes for different folks innit.

aims80 we tried to get our DD to differentiate like that - she did for a bit, but now it's 'mummy' and 'other mummy', used for both of us interchangeably - whichever mother is deemed to be more likely to accede to her requests is called upon 'other mummy get chocolate' etc. She's almost 2.

DH calls his mom mum and (he's Canadian), the DCs call me mum, mom, mommy, mummy, and occasionally I'll get mama (don't know how that one snuck in there). I call my mom ma, she called her mother ma as well (probably where I got it from) and we're American.

I don't understand having a problem with mammy, although in the states (down south) you'd probably get your ass kicked for saying it as it is sometimes seen as an ethnic slur towards Afro-Americans.

mymblesson are you thick? I said mammy not mama

Wow, talk about thread ressurection!!

I'm Irish and from Dublin. I say Mam but no way would I call her Mammy, unless I want to wind her up.

Mammy is for culchies - the same people who call crisps Taytos and jeans 'denims'.

Hmmm My mother came from Dalkey and always signed her cards and letters mammy - as it happens today is her anniversary and I would be so thrilled to get just one more card signed, "With all my love and best wishes, Mammy"

I don't know about 'mammy' as I have never heard that but I do find 'mummy' from grown adults very cringe worthy. Rightly or wrongly it always strikes me as very affected. As in, oh look how posh I am I call my mother mummy, what oh, jolly hockey sticks. I will run for cover about now ....