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!!

The accents aren't the same, or even that similar! I'm from the midlands but my accent is definitely not a brummy one. God grief no. Not that I have anything against brummies, erm, some of my best friends are brummies ....

Ahem.

everlong not really, but then my memory isn't so great. Also, since I am entirely neutral on PIV, I can only imagine that you saw a rant where there was none.

rasputin It is equally annoying when people from England call Halloween an Americanism when it originated in Scotland/Ireland.

mom and mam are also widely used in Ireland, its not an "american import"

I know - I have a Black Country accent rather than a Brummie one and they are as different as German and Spanish to my ears. I am amazed that people get them confused.

It is a rare pleasure to hear proper Black Country canting though.

This made me laugh:

www.scribd.com/doc/130606/Winders-Black-Country-Windows

Mam is Monkey, I know of only two people who say mom, maybe its different in the ROI.

iamclaire, happy to confirm!!

yes I meant parts of ROI, in some parts is is as common as mam, and its not a new thing

Despite living in NI I'm not good with Irish ways of saying things so thanks for clarifying...Having put on an Irish accent (in my head) I can see how mom might sound fine.

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

Same here. I have only come across mum or mam (From London, live in Yorkshire, OH from North East)

Both dh and I calls our Moms, Mom, both from the West Midlands/Black country

I was really suprised when moved to the South East that people had Mums :o I get really pissed off you have to by MUM cards so instead I buy Mother cards and my Mom says I do it to look posh

I think from a child's point of view mommy is SO close to mammy that they are almost interchangable
where as mummy is a more distinct sound and less likely to interchange with mommy or mammy

so I'ld expect to hear "mom"s wherever there's "mam"s, and both can sound suitably stroppy if shouted from the top of the stairs when you're a teenager

and just to go back on the thread (sorry) it annoys me when people refer to me as a brummie as well. I have never lived in Birmingham

We're an arsey bunch in the Black Country :o

:o

my dh often says I have a face on

If I have a face on, my mom says "Put your face straight!" :o

FioFio I am glad to see that I am not the only person who scours the shops for birthday / Christmas / Mothers Day cards that don't say "mum"

I have at least 3 rants a year about it in Clintons

The lack of Mom cards may well have been Clintons downfall

I agree. If only their CEO had been in some of the Essex branches I have ranted and ravedaired my views in then it could all have been oh so different

"The lack of Mom cards may well have been Clintons downfall"

MIL thinks that there should be cards with mam on as well. I expect that there are more mums than moms and mams put together so all the cards say mum, mummy or mother.

"MIL thinks that there should be cards with mam on as well. I expect that there are more mums than moms and mams put together so all the cards say mum, mummy or mother"

but they're good at doing a lot of variations of grandmother (nannie, grandma, granny..) so why don't they do same for mothers?

I only ever have a choice of 2 or 3 mother cards. Vast vast majority are mum or mummy

Same with cards for nan or nanny. Very few of them. They're all nanna or grandma

They are not all for Grandma! Mine now dead, but for years there was only ever a choice of 2. One was always horrid, and usually my Grandma wuld end up with same card from my sister and I.

Or maybe I just live in a hotspot for Nan / Nanny ?

Oops. That reads really badly, doesn't it?
Poor sentence construction Hazel, v poor.

YANBU. I have a friend who used to pride herself on her intellectualism. Not now. She recently posted a FB status update proclaiming "I'm turning into a soccer mom!" Bleurgh.

Hazel we need a granny map :o

I was going to suggest that as well.

I'll start. I grew up in South London and had a granny and an oma (German). In Northumberland they say granny as well. In Sheffield/Barnsley most kids say nanan or grandma.