AIBU to think that adults should not call their parents 'mummy' and 'daddy

[magpiemay]

It might be that work is really grating on me today but I really cannot tolerate it. I sit with a lady (in her mid 50s) who takes an awful lot of personal calls throughout the day. Particularly from her mum and she calls her 'mummy' throughout the whole call... is it totally unreasonable that this makes me cringe?

Annesmyth well fwiw I think it's infantilising in any language/culture - otherwise you end up with up to 4 generations with everyone calling each other mummy which is weird in the extreme in my opinion
I can only really comment on my experience which is London/white/lapsed Catholic. There may well be a difference with cultural norms as opposed to linguistic/ dialectic norms which I concede are outside my experience.
The flip side of this is I suppose people who call their parents mummy thinking why the hell do some people call their parents mum?

It's a word, that is commonly used by areas of the uk by all sections of the community -judge away haters, but yes I find it extraordinary that people find it acceptable to say such horrible things after it's been pointed out that it is really normal in Northern Ireland!

The OP was not saying I live in NI/anywhere in Ireland and find this really annoying unless I have massively misunderstood the thread?

Unless you are in Ireland OP in which case you're on your own.

I hadn't considered this might be more of a regional thing as it isn't something I have come across where I live before. (That isn't intended to sound narrow minded or stereotyping by the way!!)

As mentioned no offence was intended I was just curious for opinions - which I have received!

I asked if I was being unreasonable for it to bother me so can and handle being told I am

I do very much like my colleague for those who have asked (aside from the frequent loud phone calls!)

I have a Mum and Dad but the DDs (18 and 20) still call us Mummy and Daddy. When they're referring to us to friends though, they call us by our first names. I think it started out ironically and has become a habit.

We find it cringey too! Usually have a little giggle when hearing a posh person say it on tv. My dd stopped saying mummy daddy during primary school and was adamant about it which we found funny at the time, she just decided herself like it was a babyish thing. I must have been the same I presume as just use mum dad for parents. Don't mind what people choose to use but just not the norm here.

It really is not a universal thing in Northern Ireland. I'm from there and although I now live in England my entire family and most of my schoolfriends are still there and none of them call their parents Mummy and Daddy. I know that 'my wee Irish Mammy' is a thing but 'Mummy can I have...' is skin-crawlingly infantile in grown adults. If I hear it I always think they're going to ask for sweeties or to pet the doggy or something.

YABU. I'm posh I guess, although mummy and daddy would string me up for using that term, not smart at all!! and neither of my parents will answer to anything other than mummy and daddy. It if I'm talking about them i use mother and father. Can't bring myself to use mum or dad.

What I really don't get is why what a family use bothers anyone else.