to not understand why so many OPs use the word 'mom' when they are not American.

[LuluJakey1]

I regularly see posts on MN where the OP uses the word 'mom' instead of mum/mother. At first I thought they wete all American OPs but now I tealise many are British. Is it just me who finds it a bit of an affectation?

x post - nice to see other mams

Glad to hear there's still some "mams" out there

It's very difficult getting a mother's day card to "mam".

Posted too soon. My mam is a mammy

My DS has been known to call me "Maw" when he's being "funny".

my mum always called her mother mom. Midlands again. notice I don't funny that eh?

I'm a Mam / Mammy, although it does seem to be dying out.

True Knees - I usually just make the "U" into "a" with a biro

I am in Yorkshire and have always had a 'mom'. And she had a 'mom', and my granny had a 'mom'.

I do tend to type 'mum' on here though, as you always know some body is going to assume it's an affectation

I like seeing Mam, there is something comforting about it, in a Catherine Cookson matriarch sort of way.

widdle

Where or all the make from I,m in the northwest I had friends boyfriends who called their mother mam but I don't really hear it anymore isn't mammy also an Irish thing?

.... for the same reasons lots of people in the UK now say 'can I get a coffee'...

...American tv programs.

Nope they definitely didn't have American TV programmes when my granny was little.

My mom is a brummie! I'm not so I'll just be mum :)

sir noel - I understand that much. but mom has become very popular recently.

x2 Mam is still used in Cumbria - so yeah think it's very much a northen and Irish thing

x2boys I'm in the north west and we always called our mother "mam".

My own DC call me mum though - or Ma!

Mams from not make !

DCs call me Mum and they call my mother Mam short for Mamgu. I call her Mammy.
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I'm on the Durham/Northumberland border and work in a school. All the kids call their mums "mam" and I've totally picked it up. I cringe when I hear myself say, in my Home Counties accent, "shall we ring your mam, Jimmy?"

Think I have said this before on another one of these threads but...Moorland Pottery do/did an 'I Love You Mom' mug as part of their Brummie Ware.

"Can I get...?" isn't just an American affectation either. It is also quite common in Scotland.

Its because they are Brommies