Mommy

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Am I the only one who cannot stand being referred to as a mom, mommy or mommie

I am not American

It is spelt MUMMY

I don't know why this annoys me so much but it sets my teeth on edge

I have a Surrey friend who says mommy/mom, but she's South African.

Yes it is regional. Folk in The Midlands say mom. Like northerners say it's time for tea, and not dinner. Nothing wrong in anything anyone says; just different regional dialects.

I am a Mom/Mommy. I can't stand Mum/Mummy. I don't however stand and throw stones like you are doing. YABVVVVU, it is none of your business how people are referred to by their children. And no I am not American.

I'm a Mommy. From the midlands.

I sound like a twat when I say mummy.

I am a South African mommy. The kids are learning the call me mummy at school though.

I'm 'mummmmeeeeeeeeee' or 'mama', depending on their mood. Live in south west but that's not our background. Don't know where they get it from.

TBH it's an individual thing, I use mam and mum - I refer to my mother when talking to other people and when talking to her as "mum" but if I am talking to family about her (siblings/dad/aunts/uncles etc) then I tend to refer to her as "mam".

My sister has always called her "mum" and my brother always calls her "mam" ... all brought up in the same house by the same mother, it was handy for her though because she could usually tell straight off which of us was shouting for her depending on what was called out

My DD was born in Spain so I've always been mamá, even now we're back in the UK; my siblings both have DCs who refer to my sis and SiL as "mummy".

Agree with Catlady and Blazed, the OP is being very unreasonable. Puts me in mind of someone I knew a while back who said people from the black country are thick because they can't even speak their own language correctly. (They say how AM ya?') As I said before, and as I said to her; it's called a regional dialect!

Also, a very dear friend of mine who is Irish, calls her mother 'mammy.' Her 6 siblings do too. They are all mid 30's to late 40's.

I find it quite odd being mummy, as I'm Scottish but my kids are English. By now I should be mammy to my face, and "my maw" behind my back...

another Midlander here, TBH I get fed up of hearing people slate 'Mom' & 'Mommy' assuming its an American thing, I hear that all the time on Facebook, especially when no one believes that s what we say in the Midlands!

Mum & Ma here. It sounds weird when people say 'My Mam' or 'I'm going to my Mams'. Mom is equally as mind grating

Yes, YABU to get this annoyed about a regional variation of a word.

Mom is definitely a Midlands thing. If you got out a bit more you'd also hear
Mam
Ma
Mum
Mammy
as well as things like Mother

If you really want to upset the London set, you might want yo know that hear in the Midlands, your Nanny is your Grandmother, not some employee too

Mom, mommy, mam, mammy all set my teeth on edge.

I too am a West Midlands Mom. Dh is welsh so his mother is Mam. Never thought anything of it and couldn't get wound up by this!

As an aside my friend is Welsh but lives in Brum, she's Mam even though her dc have West Midlands accents

I'm also a Black Country mom and every time I type the word 'mom' on here I expect to be asked whether I'm American. It's happened a few times.

Do people in other areas not say nanny then?

As a Geordie, I also find "mum" and "mummy" anathema.

MAM! I am MAM!!!!!

Proud Welsh Mam here!

Black Country mom here! Never realised it was an issue until I joined MN....

Doesn`t really matter though does it? Shows we are loved, no matter what we are called!

I'm in the West Midlands.

Mom is even written by doctors in patients' medical notes and consultants letters up here.

There are Mas, Mums and Moms.

Sorry. YABU

And Mams.

Do people in other areas not say nanny then?

I'm an English teacher, and I remember an exam paper with a fiction extract which referred to a chid's nanny. Much confusion arose when the kids misinterpreted this as a grandmother, and not the children's carer.