To ask if you're British why would you spell 'Mum' as 'Mom'

[MoonStar07]

#firstworldproblem! Does my head in it's Mum! Mummy etc not Mom. Point made. Thanks

Aye.

I think I saw on here that some northerners say mom.

I know two people who do this. Where we come from we say mam. It is odd.

It's a Birmingham thing.

It's what people from the Midlands would say, isn't it?
Like Irish people like say 'mammy'

From Birmingham, we say mom. Really don't see how anyone could get wound up by it

I see it on Facebook on selling pages 'Can anyone make my 75 year old Mom a Birthday cake?!' Etc Mum Mum Mum!

People from the Birmingham area say Mom and have done for a very long time.

Regional variation. It isn't "Mum" everywhere in the UK anyway. Mam, anyone?

You'll spell it mom if your from the Midlands. Regional variation and all that.

Or you have an American mom. ;)

It's a regional dilect thing - plenty of people in the Midlands use Mom, just in the same way Mam tends to be used more in the North

Oh I didn't realise that I thought people were trying to be American. So in Birmingham they say Mom? Or spell Mom?

Or possibly the person is American or has an Anerican Mother. Why would you care?

There are many people in Ireland who say Mom.. In my part we say Mammy and then Mam or Ma..
What's the issue moonstar ?

It's mom in the Midlands. I do say/write mum however.

I get Mam. Mom just annoys me.

People not getting regional variations annoys me.

The people i know who say it are from NE Scotland

I had a thread about this a while ago. Turns out it's just a regional thing.

I know what you mean though.

Me too hunter the anti American thing on MN annoys me too..

It's in British dialect, I'm near enough Birmingham and an American airbase so it's fairly commonly seen.

Another Birmingham girl here standing shoulder to shoulder with her fellow moms in the face of unexpected levels of wound -upness....

"Point made."

What point have you made, exactly? I wasn't aware that there were rules dictating what people call their female parents. They can call them whatever they choose.

If you are from Birmingham it's mom.

So yes, you are Being Unreasonable, since you asked.