To think a grown up shouldn't call their mother 'mummy'

[shebird]

Is it just a bit weird hearing a 40 year grown old woman call her mum 'Mummy' all the time. It just grates on me.
AIBU?

YANBU I have a 30 year old DN that insists on calling her mum, in a sickly sweet childish voice .... Mumma! Yuck!

Well, umm, I stopped calling my mother "Mummy and switched to "Mum" at about 5-6 and so did my children with me.

But you are brave to start this thread OP...

Well each to their own of course, but I just find grown up woman calling another grown up woman Mummeee in the same tone voice my DD used when she was 3 is a bit strange and very irritating.

My teen dd still calls me mummy. Never in public though. I'll still say mummy to my mum occasionally

My teens call me Mummy. I don't know why. I don't mind what they call me as long as it's not something like Bitch.

Very true Vertigo

Hmmmmm I'm conflicted here. I call my parents mammy and daddy and when I was a teenager I was totally embarrassed by it, but had sort of left it too late to change really. Now I don't give a shit. They are my parents' names as far as I'm concerned. And I'm working class northern and in no way posh.

YANBU

I don't know if you are being unreasonable or not but I do find it odd, in my experience it tends to be something that more upper-class folk use and it does sound strange coming from a grown-up. I think my mam would have a heart attack if I ever called her mother, mum or mummy!!

I find the very posh "Marrrmeeeee" very irritating though. Can't justify it really. I like to think I don't enunciate it in the same way as OP's young DD

I am 42 and my mother is Mummy and my father is Daddy, and they always will be  (I am a bit posh )

It's bad but not as calling your husband/older lover Daddy.

Each to their own imo

YABU I am much older than 49'and still call my mother (92) mummy.

Because she wants me to.

Surely one may call their mother whatever they want?

I think you have to be a bit posh to carry it off. I would LOVE my ds to have kept calling me mummy, however we are not posh and he doesn't want to

I'm not remotely posh however my dad will always be "daddy" to me.

My mum however is just plain old "mum" or "mam"

40 not 49! Nearer 69 in actual fact :D

I am slightly posh tbh.

Mmm, I'm 41 and I still call her mammy.
I also call her "mamble", "mamsicle" and my personal favourite "mammary" because she hates it .
We are most definitely not posh.

Oh and "Mambo No 5"

Surely one may call their mother whatever they want?

exactly. What is it to anyone? I called my mum and dad mummy and daddy quite a bit when I/they were older and I really don't give a shit if it grated on anyone.

I get called it from time to time (in 50s, adult offspring) and I hate it as much now as I liked it when they were little. But it is done to wind me up, particularly in public: if they actually want something - like a civilised conversation or financial rescue - then they revert to my preferred term.

Posh folk, innit?

"Mummy" I can just about deal with. "Mumma" makes me physically ill.

Mumma" makes me physically ill.

You have a remarkably weak stomach - I'd get that seen to if I were you.

I'm not posh. I'm not even British. but I think anyone who judges me for what I call my parents is an ass.

My dh is Irish, his family use mammy & daddy all the time. I think it's odd, but I understand it's a cultural thing. My dm would hate it, I would love it, if my dcs called me mammy. They don't though so never mind. I don't care what anyone else does though, each to their own.

I call my mother 'ma' sometimes