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

I'm a Mom !!! I am not a Mum!!!

Kids live in a region where Mum is used and they some times slip up -

Sorry Mum winds me up when it's aimed at me!

Momsnet doesn't sound quite right

Where do people think American English comes from?

Momsnet doesn't sound quite right

Neither does Mamsnet though...

Mumsnet sounds about right

Ahhermmm

Mum is terribly posh in Brummy land - but not as posh a mummy ....

As my name says, I'm still trying to get used to mam. I'm northern irish born and bread. It has alway been Mum for me. I'm now living in the Republic and still can't get over the fact that my dc's call me Mam

I don't really get why anyone would give a toss what someone else calls their mother.

Also, why are people so anti-American when it turns out most of the "Americanisms" they are complaining about were imported to America from Britain, Ireland etc so aren't even American.

DH has a Mum and often says 'ask MUM' I tell them to ask DUD ...

I live in the black country area of West Midlands and we say 'mom'. We have the nearest dialect to ye olde English that you can find. In fact, I believe we are more correct in our usage. It is a shortage of the the word 'mOther' not m'Uther'

I'm from the midlands everyone here says mom and spells mom.

Mam you'll get used to it

For goodness sake, don't be obtuse. Mom is not a loan word - it is well-established as part of a regional lexis since at least the 1500s. Hence, its in use in the modern idiolect of individuals from those named areas. It's continued proliferation is therefore perfectly correct. It is not, as it seems is often assumed, an attempt at adopting a popularised transatlantic sociolect discourse or an evidence of an inferior linguistic ability.

Mum, man or maw.

For some strange reason my youngest decide i was mama ehe he statted to speak which was a surprise but quite cute.

"For goodness sake, don't be obtuse. Mom is not a loan word - it is well-established as part of a regional lexis since at least the 1500s. Hence, its in use in the modern idiolect of individuals from those named areas. It's continued proliferation is therefore perfectly correct. It is not, as it seems is often assumed, an attempt at adopting a popularised transatlantic sociolect discourse or an evidence of an inferior linguistic ability."

Christ on a bike; someone's swallowed a dictionary. Quick, somebody report this to The Plain English Campaign.

Ah, blank, if you're going to patronise, you should probably try and get its and it's the correct way round...

at multivac

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When promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical, or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications demonstrate a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibleness, no coalescent conglomerations of precious garrulity, jejune bafflement and asinine affectations.
Let your extemporaneous verbal evaporations and expatiations have lucidity, intelligibility and veracious vivacity without rodomontade or Thespian Bombast.
Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous propensity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendre, obnoxious jocosity and pestiferous profanity, observable or apparent.
It is the insuperable desire for the feeling of mental and linguistic aptitude that best stands in the way of communication. We laboriously elucidate, elaborate , and illuminate, in indecipherable phrases that merely serve to vex, perplex or flummox our interlocutors. In the process, the kernel of the message becomes intricately intertwined in the ludicrous livery in which we couch it. Therefore, despite the gratuitous gratification of pompous verbosity, the only constructive conclusion is that simplicity is key.
HTH.

Fare point - writed on phone whilst wondering around kitchen and that's the won it went four. Last line wording error roan knee arse two - oh well! I am as happy to except my own mistakes as I am the regional variations of others - unlike the OP!

Blank, write out 500 times:

"I MUST NOT WRITE GOBBLEDYGOOK."

Quim,

I have studied languages - what I was saying wasn't that verbose. I was using the correct terminology in my own words, unlike whatever you have copied and pasted.

Fare point - writed on phone whilst wondering around kitchen and that's the won it went four.

Fair, Wrote. One. For

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

I'll join you.

Cody, don't you think that might have been my point - since you also missed wandering - not wondering - and the others.

"I have studied languages"

"Fare point - writed on phone whilst wondering around kitchen and that's the won it went four. Last line wording error roan knee arse two - oh well! I am as happy to except my own mistakes as I am the regional variations of others - unlike the OP!"

You need to study English a bit more.

Cody, don't you think that might have been my point - since you also missed wandering - not wondering - and the others.

Life's toooo short