To get really pissed of with people using "mom" all the time?

[SherlockHolmes]

Heard it several times on the radio today, and people on here seem to use it willy-nilly. If you're American, or from the Midlands, then fine. If not, it's MUM. With a U in the middle.

Grrrrr.

hate mum, mummy, mom, mommy .... prefer ma or mammy. then again i'm irish.

I'm not offended by mom or mum but absolutely loathe mam. It just sounds depressing.

Mam is the norm in Geordie land and it is not at all depressing.

It always makes me smile when combined with the standard suffix denoting surprise / embarrassment etc: "man", so you get "Mam, man!"

Most people around here (Leicestershire = East Midlands) use Mum, not Mom. But we do flatten vowels, etc, etc.

This thread is really starting to piss me off. Now hiding it. Fucking ridiculous.