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To ask why somepeople use the word mom on here?

106 replies

Bubblemoon · 03/10/2012 15:05

Mom?

OP posts:
DaveMccave · 03/10/2012 23:07

I honestly thought everyone that said 'mom' on parenting forums was from america or elsewhere for a few years. Turned out they were all from the midlands. I had no idea it was used in this country. So do they sell mothers/birthday day cards that say 'mom' in the midlands? Does the market differ regionally?

Redbird12 · 03/10/2012 23:20

Walsall girl here, well originally and another one who didn't realise 'Mom' wasn't common until I moved away and DH asked why I was using the American spelling! Not sure why the West Mids adopted their own spelling though but then as others have said we do have some funny words and those who think I have an accent really don't know the half of it....stopped in a KFC in Wednesbury the other week with some work colleagues, they had no clue what was being said to them at all Grin

MCos · 04/10/2012 00:09

I had a 'Mammy', but I am 'Mom' to my girls.

cheekybarsteward · 04/10/2012 10:24

Black Country dialect in very old so is likely that Mom was used before Mum.
There used to be specially published greeting cards for the Midlands using Mom but due to the decline in greeting card publishers these are much harder to get hold of.
As an aside what a beautiful day it is today near Stourbridge. Must get off MN and walk the hills :)

OwlLady · 04/10/2012 10:29

as an aside black country dialect does have some brilliant words, I love the word frittened and still use it now

I remember when I moved to Kent I described my son as mardy and no-one had a clue what mardy was Confused though mardy can be a Yorkshire term as well, i understand...

OwlLady · 04/10/2012 10:31

yav yaouw all sin this? just fer a loff

OwlLady · 04/10/2012 10:32

sorry linked to the wrong page!

TiggerWearsATriteSmile · 04/10/2012 10:36

Mom, mam, mama, all the one.

The only one that gets my wick is Mummy, they are a thing wrapped in bandages in my book.

PeshwariNaan · 04/10/2012 10:39

I'm sure there are at least some Americans on here other than myself, and we generally say "mom." Though I have assimilated since I live in the UK and say "mum".

FatherHankTree · 04/10/2012 10:42

OwlLady, I love that Brummie translator. I typed in 'hello' and it translatied as 'Allroight'. It got bob-owler correct, as well.

BupcakesAndCunting · 04/10/2012 10:44

Allroight mom pass us them faggits and paes willya?

BitOutOfPractice · 04/10/2012 10:48

That link ay propa loike!

BitOutOfPractice · 04/10/2012 10:49

And I've taught my Essex kids a few phrases like

Yow've gorra loff ay ya? coz if yow doe loff, yow'll cry

CouthyMowWearingOrange · 04/10/2012 10:50

My Scottish Granddad is Papa, and his dad (my Great Granddad) was Buppa. No clue why, but I can't call him my 'Great Granddad' even now he's been dead for 20 years. He always has been, and always will be, my Buppa.

OwlLady · 04/10/2012 10:51

Yow've gorra loff ay ya? coz if yow doe loff, yow'll cry

thebody · 04/10/2012 10:51

Because I live in Birmingham and that's what we say you patronising person( don't want to get deleted) what a stupid thread.

BitOutOfPractice · 04/10/2012 10:53

It's hard to write phonetically!

God I miss the Black Country Sad I don't have a strong accent but get picked up on it all the time, usually by people with far stronger Essex accents

The one word that gives me away every time is tooth. I pronounce it "tuth" with a strong u sound, not toooooooth. Apparently that's hilarious

BupcakesAndCunting · 04/10/2012 10:57

Tuth is how yam say it if yow'm a propa person ay it?!

squoosh · 04/10/2012 10:57

Why is it called the Black Country? Also, do you think Adrian Chiles is a good ambassador for your part of the world?

OwlLady · 04/10/2012 10:58

Five always gives me away.

I was told the other day in my local co-op that i had a posh birmingham accent...Hmm and I presume that is because I have the accent but don't talk in slang (anymoreWink It was really weird though, we went to Barmouth in the summer and it is full of west midlanders and I could feel my accent coming back much strionger and I started to talk more broad Blush

OwlLady · 04/10/2012 11:01

It's called the black country because of the coal mining and the industrial revolution. But they think it was called the black country even earlier than the revolution as coal was very near surface so the ground was always black

I bet most of us on here from those areas are from mining familes (unless you were posh :o)

BupcakesAndCunting · 04/10/2012 11:02

LOL at Black Country Question Time^ Grin

It's called the Black Country because it is/was very industrial. All the soot and slag ay it?

BitOutOfPractice · 04/10/2012 11:02

Bupcakes, yow'm roight, ay it?

Think it's called the Black Country because it was where the industrial revolution started and was rather grimy as a consequence

And no, I can't stand chiles. He supports the tescos Angry

squoosh · 04/10/2012 11:03

Interesting. I thought better to ask a real living Black Country-er rather than Silicon Valley dwelling Google who has no affinity for the place Smile

BupcakesAndCunting · 04/10/2012 11:06

Chiles was at some event that we went to last year.

I can confirm that he is more thin/tanned/less potato-faced IRL than he appears on telly.