To dislike 40 yr old dh calling his mother "mummy"

[Mala]

Always think mummy sounds horrible, unless the person is under 16. I mean it's okay as a one off, but as an adult I prefer mum. Also don't like dd calling her grandmother "grandmummy"(which is how dh will often refer her as).

one of my dsis's calls mum .. mumm-ay

don't know why but it makes the rest of us snort

I know that some Germans call their parents Mutti and Vati which is the equivalent to Mummy and Daddy. Likewise they will add an 'eli' to the end of the name to soften it = Kateli instead of Kathrin.

xenia you are a right card

My dad always wanted me to call him daddy but I was the black sheep of the family and lowered our social class a notch by insisting on dad from the age of 8.

Last wek I visited a 56 year old woman who consistently called her parents mummy and daddy to me throughout our conversation. Yucky yuck.

My 18 and 16 year old DSs still call me mummy. I think it's partly because we have a DD of 7 and partly because we live in Belgium so there's no peer pressure to change to mum and dad. With regard to French, it's usually maman and papa but there's a whole host of names for grandparents. My PIL didn't like any of the English grandparent names so they go by the Dutch names of Oma and Opa.

grim ernest - calling your dw mother.

my dh calls his mum mummy and i look around furtively hoping no-one's listening. my neck muscles are quite strong now.

i've tried to get him to stop, but he does it on purpose because he's just WAITING for someone to goad him.

There's something I think you've maybe missed - Mummy is also often quite a non-English thing. I can't speak for all continents, but it's certainly an Asian thing (there are Goodness Gracious Me sketches to this effect).

All DP's lot - him and his three identical brothers - refer to their parents as Mummy and Daddy. And they think it's distinctly odd that people think this is odd.

Weirderooney, but.

nope - my dh is british through and through.

he must be posh

or very ironic or something

or something...

I'd missed your posts whiffy - your dh is obviously just on the wind-up 'cause he knows it's a poncy thing to say

"I'm from Newcastle. Plenty of people I know there call their parents mummy and daddy."

Xenia, they are posh people.

oh and sorry whiffy - I was responding to the op with my first comment.

Wowthis tread has surprised me. I can't believe how many people (adults) call their parents mummy and daddy. I've never met anybody who does. Maybe that's because I am not posh and I'm northern. In fact I'm more likely to hear 'mam'.

I'm 49 and still call my parents mummy and daddy, ( but I don't mind admitting I'm posh!) my DD does, and my DS 19 does, but hates it , but can't seem to lose the habit of calling me mummy, especially when he wants something.

My friend is 60 and she still calls her mother mummy. We do refer to them as 'my mother'when talking about them.

My mother wouldn't answer to mum!

pd

my dh rather alarmingly ricochets between 'mummy' and her initials. i'm sure it's a wind up. i just have to get him to admit it.

It's just words. My children chop and change depending which friends they are with but would always call me mummy at home. My siblings and I call our father daddy and he's 78!

Northern posh - not sure. Depends how you define posh. Perhaps our definition should be simply whether or not you call your parents mummy and daddy but even that's not posh, is it? What about mater and pater or what does Prince Charles use?

Never heard it before I came to London!

calling your parents mummy and daddy after you have left home is posh.

That's the definition

I can't bear the word mum. Once we were too old to say mummy I called mine mother. My own kids call me mummy (& DD is 21) but call DH a variety of names- DD calls him pa, one of the DSs says da.

My ILs insisted on being nanny and grandad. I hate the word nanny (even worse now the DSs have shortened it to nan) and my dad and grandad were both already called grandad so I found it very confusing. My own grandparents all had different names which was much easier.

mater and pater is aristocratic.

Or you are molesworth

I think I'm more middle class than posh.

People's definition of middle class varies wildly.

You is posh, face it.

Okay, I accept the promotion. Upper middle class then? ABC1 may be? I have a hole in the elbow of this top and my car cost £950 so I don't think I can really be very posh.

Perhaps you are "nouveau riche"? With your island and all