to feel a bit ragey when friends say mom/mommy...

[Tangointhenight]

And they are not American/Canadian but British!?

I know I probably am being U but its really starting to grate on me, on texts, in emails, on FB, should I call them on it?? It's MUM ffs!!

People in certain Parts of the UK do say mom.

It's also a British thing.

Lots of Northerners say Mom.

Just to throw something in there all 5 of my children call me mimmy or mim. I don't no why they just do it started with my eldest who is now 6

I had a northern Irish friend who said this

Really?? I know some say Mam or Mammy but not mom...said friends are from NI where its not normal so I stand by my raginess! :o

Never heard anyone up here say mom, lots of mam but no mom.

My dd calls me mama - always has done. She sometimes calls me mummy but mama is the favourite choice - no idea why

I never knew Brits used the word 'Mom' until I started posting on internet forums

Well I'm Irish and i hate 'mum' - it's Mammy fgs.

Mom is ok coming from a rural irish person as it's the Irish language version, still current in the far west etc.

Yes I do care what other people call their mothers. I do have an opinion on something that doesn't concern me in the slightest.

We say mummy for me, but if im talking about my DP mum, i say mam. Im northern.

Mom come from Anglo-Saxon or something, and Mum is the corrupted form.

If you consider that it is spelled Mother and not Muther, logic would dictate that diminutive form would be Mom and and Mum.

it is a traditional West Midlands form which settlers from that region took over to the U.S and has become their standard. My family would never write anything else. Live and let live OP.

I say mom. Always have done. My brothers say mam though. I started saying mom after u dated a south African who said mom

I'm not arguing over what is correct, just that mom is pretty much how people in the states say it whereas its not here, its mam or mum mainly and to hear people using it who probably said mum growing up just twists me a bit. Mom said in a Norn Irish accent is weird! It just is!!

Very common in the West Midlands.

Well, then I guess my son is weird. He mostly says Mummy but occasionally says Mom.

Of course, I'm American.

Fester :) you're right, each to their own I guess!

Well tee that is excusable then...has he your accent or a NI one?

OP i am completely with you, i get all 'teeth itchy' and ragey too. I am a Northerner and call my DM 'mam' but want DS to call me mummy/mum.

DH's family are brummies however and they all say Mom (except DH funnily enough) and it really grates on me. Also my friend is from Derby and has said mum all her life, now she lives in Brummiland she has totally embraced Mommy.

Urgh - maybe it is just you and me OP

Yup from the West Mids here, I say Mom
My Lancashire children say Mum though

Yabu, for not recognising that other people are allowed to pronounce words differently to you and also for getting so bloody het up about it!

It's still developing, Tango, as he's just turned 3, but it's sort of a combination of the two!