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

Wouldn't say I've made a tit of myself lol. People are harsh. I've seen it as an education. I read further back there is an annual 'mom' and 'mum' thread. I'm pleased to have reignited the discussion :)

dailyarsewipe im the opposite, i don't answer to Mum. I'm Mami or Mam. I physically wince at being called mummy.

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

Ummm in nottingham/derby/Leicester we certainly do not use " mom"

I am from Wales with an irish mother(I think I qualify as British) I call my mother mammy.

If mom/mommy really is a Birmingham thing then why don't we call ourselves "Brommies"?!

All this thread needs is a few hundred more replies about how it's said/spelt like that in the midlands/isn't said/spelt like that in the midlands, it's mom, mam, mum...fecking in dad in Liverpool, how they grew up in Yorkshire and it was said mum on the odd side of the road and mom on the even side and ......
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Snuggly - in the 'old days' it was common for working class Brummies to refer to Birmingham as Brummigem. If you were going to your local shops/high street then you were 'going up the village'. If you were going into town then you were 'going up Brummigem, so I assume Brum is a shortened version of Brummigem. My DGF spoke like this, but you done hear it much these days.

I think it comes from when the outlying towns around the city centre actually were villages - before the railways turned them into commuter towns in the Edwardian/Victorian times. My town still has a bit of village green left and a handful of old Farm labourers cottages, but nothing else village-like left.

So, it's Brum, not Brom. Brom would sound like West Brom and be confusing.

i'm a brummy in Shropshire, my mom is Mom, my DH's is Mam and my my kids call me a mix of mum/mom.

its entirely regional.

sorry, should have said DH is welsh (south wales), he uses Mam

but just to add to the pot, my Grandmother (or Nanny, lol) was from Yorkshire and always used Mom to refer to her mother too!

Regional variation. Mam and mom are both used in the uk.

Regional variation. Mam and mom are both used in the uk.

Another Brummie here who has always had a mom and is a mom. I always cringe when an adult says mummy as it sounds so odd to me. My sons call me ma and I have no idea why, it isn't used locally or anywhere else in the family. Makes me feel like an East End matriarch.

I know, Not, I was just being silly!

Not - that's interesting. My mom used to call it Brummigem too.

I think it's a regional thing, Midlands would be Mom, north of England Mam, Scotland/Ireland Mam/Mammy/Maw.

I'm a Brummie and would never call my mom 'mum'.

Welsh here, but my Mom is from Birmingham, so it rubbed off on me and I call her Mom. My kids were all born and raised in the US so call me Mom too.

SENPARENT Sat 17-Sep-16 00:20:55

It's mom in the Midlands.
Not in the East Midlands. I don't know anyone who says "Mom"

Another East Midlander. Mum or sometimes Mam, but not Mom.

Mom is West Midlands/Birmingham/Black country, I've never heard Mom from a native East Midlander.

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

In parts of New England, they say "mum," but write "mom."

DS also had his homework corrected as Mum not Mom

Never corrected any bodies else's name!!'

Another West midlandser who uses mom (pronounced to rhyme with bomb). Now can we start a campaign to get shops stocking mom cards as it nearly impossible for me to find them at Christmas etc. A mummy is a thing wrapped in bandages!

In a Brummie and it's Mum in our family. Can't stand Mom.

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Sorry. Typo

Mom slips over to parts of Warwickshire as well, although that might be stray Brummies :-)