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!!

ds now calls me Mother
yikes

If they put on a fake accent it does sound false, can I clarify, its not the children saying it, they are just babies...it my friends calling themselves it that irks me.

Ma is IMO very dubliney, its all mam and mom where I'm from
I cannot imagine a broat A sound at the start of mammy being used in a donegal accent, it might be but I can't do it (not from donegal just trying to put on the accent), it always comes out as moh-may

oh why would you NOT use whichever version your baby uses to you OP?

I don't use mammy or mommy, my DS picked up mummy because at nursery, peoples mummies come to the door, so I say mummy back!

Ah good 24hr - i was srarting go wondering there if I had somehow accidnentaly accessed MN through a worm hole!

Though my use of mum is wierd - I wonder if it's to do with my mum being a snob and trying to pretend I don't have a brummie accent (she still does this - informs me I say bath and not barth 'on purpose'!)

I would use ma if I'm joking about e.g. let's ask my ma to babysit....though DH refers to his mum as ma all the time but calls her mammy to her face.

does it matter?

Now i a British person pronounces aluminium as 'al loo me nim' I will hit them in the face withe a roll of tinfoil its 'al u min e in '

Yep another west midlander here too, kids say mom or mommy. Dh is welsh and calls his dm mam which I have always thought sounded weird, guess its what you're used too. Shame you find it irritating op

Monkey my baby calls me 'uh' at the minute! :o

When I say mom it sounds like maum

Ma is definitely Dublin
Mom is a Kerry thing I think
Mammy is nationwide
Mam is nationwide

I?m from Dublin and I say Mum. This is definite Angliscisation that came in with my generation. None of my country cousins call their Mothers ?Mum?. It?s always Mam. As a small child I said Mammy although now Mummy is creeping in in Dublin to replace Mammy amongst the middle classes. Sad times.

Anyone in the black Country saying Mum would be seriously laughed at.

It's Mom. Rhymes with Bomb.

In Munster (southern part of Ireland) we would pronounce Mamaí as "Mommy" not "Mammy." In Munster Irish "a" has an the same sound as the "o" in "cot" and "hot". Actually the Irish word for cat, which is cat, is pronounced "cot."

They are none of the above, and I have no problem with mam as previously stated.or mom if used by an American, south African or western midlander.

I'm from the EAST MIDLANDS.

To be fair though, my mom's from Sutton Coldfield, which to all you Southerners is Birmingham.

In Ireland "Mom" rhymes with "bomb".

I'm from Newcastle, but I say Mum because I suppose you'd say my family were middle class-cue lots of Geordies asking me where I'm from and telling me I can't be a Geordie

I'm ashamed to say I always thought my Brummie friends were just saying 'mum' with a very strong accent-I didn't actually realise it was a different word. Thank you for enlightening me.

I'm always frustrated by the lack of Nana cards for my Mum for my kids, but they just make her one.

I did get confused by east midlands kids telling me about their 'nanny' I thought they meant childcarer and not Grandma.

Tang come to brum love, it's mom here.

Im from midlands and it's MOM here.
I hate, hate, hate when people write MUM!!!

I can't understand why people write Mum, after all it's Mother not muther??

True, but mum is the way its said here, except by American wannabe moms :o

I think with multiculturalism you will find that mum and mom are both now British. Wait till it's all mama and papa!

I don't understand the saying it with an American accent part. Do they not realise they sound like complete knobbers? Is it like an Ali G thing?

surrofab countless English spellings make no sense though...

Yes and I hate when people call thier babies bedroom the nursery to me unless your american or victorian it's just the babies room. When you have a cot and changing mat it's a bedroom.