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).

You are most certainly posh Xenia if you drive an old banger. Real posh people don't care about such things.

Probably. My mother's family were from a pit village. I just we are lucky in the UK to have much more social mobility within a generation or two than lots of other countries manage or we used to have here.

That's a bit freaky, xenia. I was goin gto post earlier that - in ridiculous fashion - Gryff Rhys Jones claimed he could be working class as his grandad was a miner.

Do you see yourself in terms of Gryff Rhys Jones at all?

My 49 year old dh and all 3 of his (older) sisters and brother called their parents Mummy and Daddy and still refer to them as such even though they are dead (MIL very recently).

I call my father Daddy or sometimes by his Christian name.

I call my mother Mummy or Mum depending on the circumstances.

My mother had to call her mother "Mother" as a child and found it to be very cold.

I call mine mummy and hope that my children will call me mummy. I dont think it is a posh thing, because we were as poor as church mice growing up. it has always, to mer personally sounded softer than mum. I quite like words and they way some trip off the tongue and mummy just seems nicer to say.

Obviously now I'm fairly middle class and we were brought up middle class but my mother's family weren't. It was very marked at her funeral from clothes, to accents, to the school divide, the differences effected in one generation or so. Fascinating.

I call mine Mama and Papa, and my grandparents were Grandmama and Grandpapa. But my mother, who really does have quite a posh background called her parents Mum and Dad, and her grandmother Granny. I think it depends on the accent you use as to whether it's posh or not.

Xenia's from newcastle?!?!?!?!?!?!?
No one calls their mam 'mummy'

Or maybe I didn't go to a proper school....

I have never heard anyone about the age of 8 say mummy
hear very few saying mum even

Talking of the name of the 'awful' mumsnet.....
Would Mummysnetty be any better?

Only you would need an apostrophe up here.....and then it is transformed into a whole different place......
get yer geordie dictionary out

yes

pop, they just about all did at my school in Newcastle.

give me a clue where you went xenia.
I went to a rough comprehensive so anyone who did would sharp have stopped or they would have got their head kicked in

xenia, you are softening up. Giving some personal details. You old dollop of ice cream.

I want to remain anonymous. It was obviously a fee paying school.

You are melting

'obviously'

Yuk, makes my skin crawl.

...class... class... class...

AGAIN!!!!

How about 'mater' and 'pater'. Better?

Mine are mummy and daddy and I'm over 40 although when I married 'down' I started to feel self-conscious and they became mum and 'father' - can't bring myself to say 'dad' for some reason.

So if the OP is still interested you are being unreasonable .

brother still call parents mummy and daddy and he is 40, i call them mother and father and we are very close. stem from when i was a teenager mother didnt want us to call her mum and i refused to call her mummy to mother it was and it stuck, now i am older slip into mummy but then i am a mummy

My grandparents were always grandmama and grandpapa, it sounded a bit weird to say but that is what made them happy so that is what we called them!

My parents have five children and what they get called varies, my youngest sister always calls them mummy and daddy or mummy dearest and daddy dearest, she is 21 (TBH the rest of us laugh at this but it is sweet, parents like it) Mother and father are usual, sometimes mum and dad, and now that I have DS all of us have started calling them granny and grandad because it winds them up!

We also call our father papaaa in a very tongue in cheek way when we are messing around or want something!

We all use daddy if we want something, as in daddyyyyyyyyy while giving him a big hug...it gives him some warning that we are after something! lol

Agree with op that it is a bit starange, but something that we ar still a part of and that is hard not to do if it is a family thing. My aunt still refers to her mother as mummy even when talking about her to someone else (a bit odd but also respectful of her mother as that is what she would have liked)

My dh insists on calling my grandmothers "Grandma" and "Granny X" as I do - even though Granny X in particular would rather he didn't and would far rather he called her just X - he won't as he thinks it sounds disrespectful! My BIL calls them Mrs Y and Mrs Z which sounds even more weird I think considering that he's been part of the family for more than 10 years...

My mother refers to herself as mummy when she calls our answer mc it drives me mad! Much prefer mother!

I used to work with a woman who is now about 60 and she still calls her mother mummy - but she is posh