To hate the word ‘Mumma’??

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Just makes me cringe! I don’t get it - is it meant to be a posher version of ‘mama’? I suddenly see so many people referring to themselves, or their own mothers as ‘Mumma’. Irrationally annoys me

Who cares? It’s completely inoffensive

How is mama pronounced in uk accent if not mumma?

Mama pronounced mah marrr sounds more pretentious if have thought!

I find the gleeful slagging off, of what kids call their mums when they first start talking (and it often sticks) a bit weird and unpleasant.

I can honestly say that hearing a kid say mum, mummy, mama, mumma, anything really, would fail to make me feel annoyance, anger, rage, either at the child or the parent.

Seems a bit weird.

So all those who hate it / think that the kids who say it are

You would explicitly correct your child when starting to speak on this? On the basis that they sounded common? Let's be honest that's what you're all saying.

Is your perceived class so important that you would correct what is usually a child's first or second word (mama pronounced mumma).

My DD has always called me mumma. Would be my choice but I'm fond of it now. She's 20

My grandmother was (phonetically) known as 'mumma [first name]' by the whole family and that was decades ago, so it's not new. Although I think they would have written it mama.

The only other time I've heard it used was by members of the other side of my family, who were upwardly mobile snobs, so I always assumed it was a posh alternative to 'mum'.

How is 'mama' supposed to be pronounced? I used to think it was maMAH but after my snobby relatives saying 'mumma' I began to wonder if I was wrong about that.

The spelling of mumma is awful but I don't dislike the sound.

I probably didn’t make myself clear - I didn’t mean kids calling themselves Mumma, I meant adult women either calling themselves or their mothers Mumma!

@Fraggling I didn’t actually mean children using it, I meant more the Instagram ‘i’m a busy Mumma!’

@chipsandgin and ‘the Hubs’!!

@Coldilox apologies but I obviously explained myself in a confusing way, I meant women referring to themselves as a ‘mumma’ - not Little children using it!!

DD is an adult and calls me mumma-mate, DS calls me smelly bum mum (he’s at that age)
DSD calls me Ma and she calls her mum mum!
I like them all and have no issues with mummy, mumma, ma, mama, they are all loving terms for a Mother.

Yanbu OP. I hate it when women call themselves Mumma. They usually refer to their children as bubs or bubba.

YANBU.

Well im originally from a country where the word for mother is Mama (pronounced Mah-ma). So my kids call me that as well as mummy.

Its quite sad really that some other mothers posting here think that its 'pretentious', 'the worst' etc.. when in fact it all means the same

It's supposed to be 'Mama', nothing posh about it. I dislike the spelling which I think is lazy but do like, 'Mama'.

DS is 2 he calls bananas mumma. I got excited thinking i finally had a name he could say, nope banana.

He does now say mummy now though

I've no issue with it being used by young children, but it does tend to be the term being favoured by mums being pretentious or sanctimonious about parenting and parenting lifestyles on social media.

Until you clarified I was thinking what an odd thing to hate! My DS is 22 months and calls me mumma - he hasn’t quite got the hang of mummy (even though he can say daddy just fine!)

I can’t edit the original post I don’t think but I repeat I do NOT mean I am judging CHILDREN saying it - I meant the women calling themselves it on social media etc!

@SudowoodoVoodoo that’s exactly what i mean!

I don't really like "mum" because I'm northern and say mam, or sometimes mama. I'm not gonna get annoyed about other people using mum or mumma though!

It makes me sad that there are some people out there judging the fact that my 2yo ds has inexplicably decided to start calling me mumma. I have absolutely no idea where it’s come from but there’s no way I’m correcting him.

I hate the term Mumma as well, who started the trend anyway? probably one of those so called celebrity type women,who have tv programmes about their baby. and they say bubba as well I think.

There is a single woman,who is about 30 in my village,and she a calls her Mother Mumma when she writes about her on social media, and sometimes when she goes to the pub here.. It's all something,and nothing I suppose, just seems daft really.

Just seen the clarification. I dislike any woman referring to herself as any version of mum/mam/mumma whatever. Like their kids take over their identity as soon as they give birth. Stuff like "cloth bumming mama" or "working mum" on a social media bio make me cringe.

Funnily enough, I've never seen dads do it.

Seems a bit childish, but not as bad as Nanny for grandmother, always makes me think of a goat.

I thought you meant kids calling their mums mumma. I thought YABU.

But adult women referring to each other as mumma is just no.
No.