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

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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?

fatewithleadpiping You certainly adopt a very pompous tone. I don't like pompousness. Still, we are all different- thank goodness!

Oh and my mom is 'Mom', and OH's is 'Mam' (Welsh)

We have no idea what to refer to me as when talking to DD

I'm Welsh and I've got a Mam. She was a Mammy when I was little.

I make my own cards so my Mother always gets a "Happy Birthday Mam" card.

I know someone who is half Irish who seems to use "mom" when she is interacting with the Irish side of her family, but calls her mum (who isn't Irish) Mum.

When I lived in the East Midlands I saw lots of references to "Mam" in the births, deaths and marriages columns, but I never actually heard anyone say it in real life.

Yes, I am/have a Mom in the Midlands too. Annoys me that all of the greetings cards say Mum..I don't have a Mum I have a Mom!!

I've only every found one 'mam' card down here in the saaaarf.

S'pose I could order them off the newfangled web sites, but my mams not bothered :)

I'm from York and it's mum for us. Though now live in Darlington and find it difficult to find mum on a card as they all say mam.

I live in the midlands and I have never heard anyone use 'mom'.

God, I grew up in Kidderminster and still live in the West Midlands and have never used or heard anyone use Mom. As a child and now, it's Mum all the way.

DH is Irish and says Mom. He gets it from his Dad, who is from Cork. It jarred a bit at first but I assumed it was a dialect thing and after ten years it has become normal. He calls me 'Mommy' when talking to DS but writes 'Mummy' in cards.

Incidentally, his 'Mom' is from Kerry and always says 'Mother' when referring to her own, but 'Mammy' when speaking to DS about me.

Topsy turvy world, eh?

PS. In West Yorkshire 'Mam' was commonly used up until about twenty years ago, but the younger generation use 'Mum' unless they have a particularly strong accent.

Really?? You get wound up by how people refer to their Mother?

Jeez!

I'm from Birmingham and use Mom/Mommy but would never criticise people for using Mum/Mam or any other derivative!

West Cork here and its mom/mam/mammy. My dad calls his 89 year old mother mom so its not a new thing!

Strange one for you... I'm from the midlands. So is my mum but she did move to Nigeria, Ireland and Wolverhampton for a few years.

I say mum and always have done. Never thought twice about it but in the last fee years, I realised my mum says mom.

Why did she teach me mum if she says mom? She's never once corrected me.

Oh... From reading the thread obv not that strange! Ha!

weirdcatlady RTFT I already apologised for not knowing 'mom' was used in the Midlands.

Isn't Mom in Ireland an anglicisation of Maim/ Mamai? In the part of Ireland I came from, lots of people called their mothers 'Mam', but always referred to them as or wrote 'Mum'.

In Canada they also use mom.

I have rtft but I'm still perplexed by anyone getting annoyed about what descriptive noun people use

I too am from South Africa and they're all 'moms' there.
Personally I am dreading the day my baby calls me mum as I want to be a mommy too

I'm a mam, I have a mam who has a mam.

I don't know anyone round here who says mum, (not including my mam's friend who says it when she put on her "posh" voice)however I've noticed a couple of Facebook friends who always called their mam's mam now call themselves/their mam mum. They must've gone up in the world!

Biscuits, I must shop different places to you as the majority of cards say Mum, there's usually 1 or 2 Mam cards in the middle of 100 mum cards.