To hate the word “mom

[RazzleDazz1e]

I actively cringe when I read this word.... although not if I hear it - must be used by an American/American sounding person otherwise it just sounds fricking weird!!

Oh god who gives a fuck. We don’t need to do the same sneering at “Americanisms” thread every week.

FFS this again? 🤯

FWIW, I'm a Brummie not living in Birmingham and Mum had always sounded odd to me-I would never buy cards with Mum on them, It's Mom all the way.
I can't understand why people refuse to believe it's just how Brummies say it!

Agree. Just pronouncing it as Mom when you say it just sounds stupid. Pure laziness of the English language

No it isn't! How rude.

It is lazy to pronounce it like Mom though. Its not how its spelt in the English language. Its all trivial though i know in the big scheme of things.

Its mum here, but sometimes mom, i dont mind either, but one of my daughters in law is from the North East and says mam, i hate it,but its how they say it .but i cringe when i hear it and told my son not to call me mam

It is lazy to pronounce it like Mom though

Wasn't going to post here, but the above comment pissed me off. How is it lazy to pronounce a word in a certain way? It takes the same amount of time to say mom as it does mum. It's a regional vernacular.

Stupid comment.

I’ve never lived in the West Midlands but my mom did and so she always called her own mom that and then referred to herself as a mom following mine and my sister’s birth, which me and my sister then grew up hearing abd therefore we use mom too.

My sister has two children and they both call her mom/mommy.

I have a 4y/o and he calls me mom/mommy.

My DH is always trying to correct him and saying “It’s mummy, not mommy” but my son isn’t interested

I have a baby too and no doubt he will grow up using mom/mommy too.

FFS. So you think mom isn't acceptable but presumably mum, mummy, mam, mammy, mother, mama, and mater are?

Just a reminder of what I said earlier:
it's none of my business what she calls her parent

Poor OP. It's not an issue to start a thread on a subject covered before. However the last one on mum v mom was very recent so I fear you are getting the backlash. FWIW my comment on the previous mom thread still stands. I'm in Coventry and it's mum yet around 20 miles up the road and DH says mom. Amazes me how things can differ over such a short distance.

Could be worse. Ds has started calling me 'my mother'.

Mine call me variations of Mom, Mam, Mammy, Mum and it seems to change over the years.

I'm from Birmingham and i have a mom and am a mommy.

I didn't even know it could be mum until I grew up! Mum looks and sounds odd to me.
Does it really matter?

It's what we say in the West Midlands aye it, if yoa doe like it doe use it.

@Strawberry1122

Agree. Just pronouncing it as Mom when you say it just sounds stupid. Pure laziness of the English language.

'Pure laziness of the English language' isn't even grammatically correct, and doesn't make sense, and does in fact, sound 'stupid.'

Just pronouncing it as Mom when you say it just sounds stupid.

This is ALSO a sentence with poor grammar, and a lack of punctuation, and this also sounds a bit 'stupid.'

It is lazy to pronounce it like Mom though. Its not how its spelt in the English language. Its all trivial though i know in the big scheme of things.

Again, a lack of punctuation and bad grammar.

Pure delicious irony at its finest.

If you are going to slag people off and mock the way they speak, you should probably look up the old proverb 'people who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones........'

This proverb was one of my mom's favourites!

I think that some people on MN must think that Thomas Jefferson included a dictat in the Declaration of Independence that henceforward from July 4, 1776 all Americans shall use a newly invented word "mom" for their female parent.

It's just a variation of words that were already in use and is actually a shortening of "mama."

Thank goodness Americans didn't decide to go off on a frolic of their own with "dad" or we would be subjected to endless misinformed threads about that.

You moan about it but then say FRICKING?!?!?!

Mum is worse, sounds really posh.

also I say mom as do my kids and we're Irish not American

Non native English speaker here.... Aren't mum/mom pronounced the same way? So the only difference would be in writing?

Can someone good at phonics explain how a Brummie/ W. Midlander pronounces Mom? Americans spell it Mom but it sounds more like mahm as they drawl the O sounds so much. But being a southerner I've never really heard the Brummie way of saying it.

Non native English speaker here.... Aren't mum/mom pronounced the same way? So the only difference would be in writing?

They don't sound the same

Mum makes an "ugh" sound and mom makes an "om" sound in the middle

Well you are a silly billy op. You poor snowflake.

Us brummies say mom. So what.

Strawberry you need a hobby dear

How are mom and mum pronounced the same way? Of course they arnt

American here. When I refer to my mother, she's "my mom" but if I'm using it as a name, my pronunciation is closer to "Mum". I put it down to too much BBC television in my formative years. And, funny, but nobody accuses me of putting on Britishisms.