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 am from Birmingham and I say mom.

Saying mam is never questioned nor is mum. Yet when I say mom in the UK anywhere outside of Spaghetti Junction it is somehow met with bemusement

Yep Moonstar in certain UK regions it is spelt and obviously pronounced mom. And obviously you will get people raised in these areas using mom then moving to other parts of the UK. I have a friend regularly flamed for it and she gets really fed up of correcting people.

We also use Nan

Birmingham and other northern cities are still very connected to Irish culture hence it being used there

Birmingham is not a 'northern city'. It's miles away from the north.

I'm a Mam. I hate Mum but accept that it is a regional variation.

I also hate 'first world problem'. As if all the poor brown people are too busy fetching water to be judgy about other peoples accents.

While I'm here...
Don't drop the 'g' in Birmingham. It's not Birminham 😠

Shropshire and West Midlands often use Mom. We don't, I am Mum, but my parents weren't from this part of the world. DH calls his mother Mom. It's normal.

And we have Nans, not Grans on the whole.

It's also not just about where people are from, but from where their parents and grandparents are from.

I was brought up using a tonne of Scottish phrases which none of my English friends used thanks to my Grandparents bringing me up. However I referred my mother as 'Mammy' because her parents were Irish and that's what she was used too.

Just to really upset your little regional bubble OP, here in Birmingham your Mom's mom is very often called your Nanny. That really upset some affluent MNers a few months ago

OP, bab, local historian Carl Chinn says it best. Though you may not comprehend his vowel movements...
Is it Mom or Mum? How do Brummies talk about their Mummies? - Birmingham Mail
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mom-mum-how-brummies-talk-10475107

Why on earth would you think someone with a 75 year old mother was "trying to be American"? Wouldn't it be more likely that they just actually call their mother "mom" and have done for the last 40 years or so?

I'm from South Staffordshire and everyone I know says mom. My mom called my nan mom, and I shall endeavour to get my boy to call me mom, so that he too can know the annoyance of only being able to buy cards that say 'Mum' on them!

Is it me but I just don't get the problem. My cousins dc never calls her mother anything except her Christian name and I really wouldn't bat an eyelid if somebody called their mother mom. Given that many Americans have Bristish or Irish heritage I would imagine that whatever they called their mothers went to America with them.

Mom slips over to parts of Warwickshire as well

My PIL are born and bred Black Country and claim to be from Warwickshire because they think it sounds posher

ooh... how terrible. People might be trying to be American. Get the smelling salts now.

From the Black Country, use mom. My own mom has always used mom too. And her mom is my nan.

I dislike the sound of the words "mum" and "gran" but I don't feel the need to tell them that they're trying to be posh - can't stand this attitude to people who say mom, especially when it's common usage in the west mids and has been for generations.

We now live in North Wales and 2-year-old DD calls me Mom. I'm so proud

Even if it was an "Americanism", what's wrong with that? The British xenophobia towards America and all aspects of its culture is pathetic.

Even if it was an "Americanism", what's wrong with that? The British xenophobia towards America and all aspects of its culture is pathetic

only a few weeks to go before the 'Hallow'een is grabby and American' threads start

I've got a Mam but tend to write mum because phone corrects it to man lol

Metalmidget I'm also in South Staffs, both of my children call me Mom, I call my Mom the same and my Nans were both known as Mom by my parents and their siblings too.
Mom cards are so hard to find, as are Nan or Nanny!

Brummies do it!

My Mom was born and lives in West Midlands she was mommy then mom if we called her mummy she would remind us she was not a dead Egyptian
I live in Scotland now and my DD is 7 and calls me Mama
most of the time though writes mummy in stories in cards etc, don't know why she calls me Mama I never taught it her neither did DH she just decided she liked it and it stuck

I'm a mum ( live in in the shires) but have a Mam born to Irish parents in the north east.

I'm from (just about) the West Midlands and say 'mum'. My Kiddy cousins say Mom though.

I'm trying to think of a context in which I would care deeply what other people call their parents.

Nope.

I also hate the anti-American sentiment on this thread. Americans have done wonderful things with the English language apart from the term 'reach out' so I don't understand why that's a bad thing.

I am a mom and a linguist. Mom is the western variant and Mam the northern andeastern. Mom was ttaken over to North America from the Midlands. I like being Mom.

Well this will just blow your mind then OP.
My mum is my mum. I call her mum, or sometimes mother, and when I was a child she was my mummy.
I am to my kids Mom or Mommy, I refer to my self as mom or mommy to them.
Sometimes DS1 calls my mummy, sometimes he calls me Mom.
I can flip between mum and mom like a pro, you see my kids (and my DH) are brummies and we live in Birmingham so I am a mom. But I am from Lincolnshire and my mum is mum not mom.

They are said and spelt differently. And you know what-they are both correct.
Time to get your knickers in a twist about something else