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

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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!!

I believe it is pronounced 'mmh' with the emphasis on the eyeroll. This is how my 17 year old addresses me.

I think I may make mine call me "Mother". That's nice.

I had no idea mom was common in the Midlands. I've learned something today.

Shropshire is often Mom, I grew up in the North East and it was always Man to me mum or Mummy was very posh. However my own DC grew up saying Mum/Mummy in Lancashire.

Always call my mother mom. Tho sometimes mother or mump. I'm a midlandser. Not sure if that makes a difference tho, as my brother says mum as did all my school friends, but I can remember writing 'mom' at primary school, because that's what it sounded like to me.

It's not a big deal surely.

Can't be that common though, as mother's day cards all say mum or mummy. Now that's annoying.

YABU and need to chill out a bit!

My mum is Irish and we (6 siblings) call her Mommy. When my dad was alive he was Daddy - getting us odd looks when we were out and about. We do sometimes call her mum if we are out and want to get herattention but she doesn't acknowledge us as she's slightly deaf so end up shouting Mommy at the top of our voice.

I was always irritated by the use of "Mom" but genuinely hadn't realised that this is commonplace in the West Midlands. I still think it can grate if used out of a local context in terms of making a statement - I have a Brummie friend who has car stickers/badges that proclaim she's a "xxxxx Mom" (it's related to an activity she does) and it looks just plain wrong down here in Mummyland. But then worse things happen at sea...

what about mam?

its all just local variations of mum innt

They say ar mar round 'ere

Mom...mom...mom...mom...mom...mommy....mommy....mommy...mom...

panty

As others have said it is a West Midlands thing. Can you get a card with 'Mom' on it though? Can you balls!

Since there appear to be so many of us West MIdlanders on the same thread a joke. Just for us.

Who sung 'Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps?'

• Doris Day

'er did.

I'm from NI and know a few families who use Mommy, my Mum uses it with an eyeroll to her own Mum. My two elder children say Mum/Mummy, although the 4 year old has certainly developed a tendency for spelling it when addressing me, which is way more irritating than it sounds.

However my 16 month old says Mammy, not sure where she picked it up, the other two gulder MUMMYYYYYYY at the top of the voices but she adds a very posh Mammy, Mammy

ooo compos a gap in the market? for colloquial mothers/mum/mummy/mom/mommy/mam/mammy/ar mar Day cards?

I say, I dont care what the kids call me, as long as its not rude

I hope so, the 'mom' one I could import from the US. I could be the kingpin of the Black Country greetings card market.

Now where did I leave Alan Sugar's number?

DH calls his mum mammy, I don't mind that because we are from a rural area and it sounds right with his accent...mom just doesn't, sorry but it just doesn't.

In sure west midlanders don't pronounce mom with an American accent like my friends do.

Pretty prince I am chilled, it was intended as a light hearted thread and I'm glad to see it has gone that way.

I live in Surrey but was raised in South Africa and moved here 10 years ago. I am Mom to my 7 yr old, while DH refers to me as Mum! I am not being American, I am just speaking in the accent that I learned to speak in.

YABU.

Oh if you hate mom you are gonna love this!

Had to post (see nickname!)
I'm from the Midlands, near Birmingham and Mum just sounds all wrong to me! I'm 'Mom', and so is my mom, and so was her mom!

It's annoying when friends are trying to be American.

It used to annoy me when MIL said "mom" but she is also from Brum and I read on MN that it came from there and relaxed about it. (Don't worry, she does plenty of other things that wind me up so I can let this one go!)

Got lots of friends from SA who say it too.

What takes real balls is my half-American, half-Brit friend, born and raised in the USA, whose mum is a Manc? She resolutely calls her "Mum" and has her own DCs call her "Mummy" in spite of ridicule all her life from American friends. Good woman!

I honestly thought the pronunciation had been imported from the States. I learned something new today.

Just the other day I wondered why there was such similarity between the names for mother around the world, and I found this on Wikipedia, it might be of interest to someone else too!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa

grrrr

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa

Pantylace, love it!

oh yeah...I am called Mama by their fathers family and friends

i think its an African wide thing (?)

Depending on my mood...I either love it, because it makes me feel all warm and glowy....or I hate it and rage because it feels like my identity has been completely replaced by 'being a mother' (mostly the first reaction though )

My Sheffield born-and-raised grandma always said and wrote Mom. I used to think it was a bit odd but then so were a lot of other things she said/ did to my Southern ears

I'm another Mom here. From Wolverhampton. I am not a mum. I think mom sounds friendlier :o

I ahve never bought my mom a card with "mum" on it. I always look for mother becase I'm a pedantic idiot she's not my mum

OP - you misunderstand.

I call my mum "Mum". She signs herself as "Mom" in cards, etc. My nan always called herself "Mam". Think it's a northern thing.