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 from Yorkshire and say 'mum'

DH is from south of Birmingham and says 'mom'

My brummie DH says 'mom' but here in Coventry a few short miles away it's 'mum'.

In parts of Shropshire it is Mom. I grew up with 'me Mam' in County Durham.

Brummies say mom. I'm from Surrey and find it strange my kids call me mom. All cards etc are from "mum" to "mom"
When dh did it I told him I would call him dod

I am a Mom. I grew up abroad where everyone is Mom. Mum looks and seems weird to me. I birthed her I can choose what she calls me.

It still annoys me. Can't put my finger on it....

It's a brummie thing

I'm pretty much on the border of the East and West Midlands and I have never heard of anyone using mom, yet it seems it happens just a few short miles down the road! I love these variations. We eat cobs here but in the next town they eat batches. We also walk down jittys but no one else in the country seems to have ever heard this term. I think it's fascinating.

Outdoor is Brummie as is Gambol - we also eat Kali -

The Midlands is a big place, within which I've never heard anyone using 'mom'.

I'm a Wulfrunian and it's Mom. Top marks for anyone other than someone from my local town who knows what a Wulfrunian is!

Snake - It's always a cob if it's crusty. Otherwise it's a roll in this household.

My mum's from the midlands, I grew up in London she always writes love mom and I always write back dear mum. She says mom and I say mum. We haven't managed to implode or stop speaking yet. Perhaps we're in denial and one day reality will hit us and we'll both need therapy

I live somewhere that people are called Mam, I fucking hate it. If my kids call me Mam (which they do, specifically to wind me up), I tell them that I'm not in a Catherine Cookson novel and I'm mum (totally outing myself there!).

It really gives me the rage, but I think mom would be worse though.

But I get that it's fine if other people don't mind.

YABU

It's Mum or Mummy and occasionally Mother for me. I have seen Mom, Mommy, Mum, Mummy, Mam and Mammy greeting cards in stores. You might want to stay clear of them, Moon

It appears to be a Midlands/Birmingham thing. Certainly not something I hear ever in Scotland.

I'm a Midlander. my lovely mum always signed herself "mom". She died a long time ago and I've lived in the SE long enough to use "mum" now.

black you wouldn't be from Wolverhampton, would you?

I'm mum but here in North East mam is popular.

In the specific little part of West Yorkshire that I'm from, we say Mom.

I have a mom, she had a mom, and her mom had a mom.

I think people who presume that everyone who uses the word mom is trying to sound American are probably a bit hard of thinking.

Or have just never heard it used

I'd never heard of nine while five or causey edge or snap till moving up north, doesn't make me hard of thinking. Round here, language is such a nuanced thing that literally 10 miles down the road, the same word means something totally different. No one is right or wrong, people just have preferences.

My DH lived in West Yorkshire for 50 years and never heard anyone say Mom (and looked at me like WTF are you asking me about this shit for?)

Surely people don't spell 'mum' as 'mom'?

Surely people spell 'mom' as 'mom' and 'mum' as 'mum'?

Do you get as annoyed with 'Nanna' and 'Nanny'? It's basically the same idea.

My father and his siblings call their 92 year old mother Mom. It's common in the west of Ireland, and I imagine was brought to America by the Irish. Where I grew up it's Mam or Mammy. My 2 year old calls me mammy, and other adults in the SE of England where we live have actually corrected her and told her it's Mummy which actually annoys me beyond measure!

You don't have to have heard something directly to understand that other people might use it surely?

Like I understand that some people in West Yorkshire don't use it. Hence me using the words "specific little part"

In Birmingham it isn't Mum. It's Mom. Mum does my head in

I lived in the midlands (Leicester) for 18 years and never heard mom used. Always mum or mam.