Mums/Moms on MN!

[TheFuckingDogs]

I’m curious as to the amount of “moms” as opposed to mums or mams I see on MN posts. I’m vaguely aware there’s somewhere in the U.K. where people say mom and obviously a certain amount of American posters but seems to be tonnes of posts which have mom instead of mum/mam! Don’t want this to be some raging debate over what is correct just genuinely curious - make this a fun thread guys!

I grew up ten miles from Birmingham and it's always been Mum for me.

Scotland; mum or mammy, occasionally maw with a cheeky face 🤣

I grew up in Wolverhampton, and we definitely write and say mom, most people in Wolves use mom. I now live in the North West, my son used to get told off at school all the time for writing mom.
Don't get me started on why can't get we get greetings cards with mom on them, round here you can get mum and mam, but never mom.

My lo’s a yam yam. When she started school I was promised they would not be teaching her Mom. They lied.

I told my son about me being a yam yam the other day, he hasn't stopped calling me one since

Itsagrandoldteam

I'd love a card with Mom on! 😊
Everyone I've ever sent or received have had Happy Mothers Day on.
I refuse to get one with Mum on 😂

@snappycamper no - 20 miles outside Birmingham is not 'basically' Birmingham. A lot of it will be Black Country and they are not the same at all and people don't like to be mistaken for a Brummie if they're a YamYam and vice versa so I'm not sure what your snippy remark achieves.

I've tried to get DS5 to say 'Mum' but he calls me 'Mom' anyway.

I'm in the Bristol area and I usually say Mum. People with a strong Bristolian accent would say Ma, but pronounced more like "Muh".

Isn't 'mom' how you say 'mum' with a brummie accent, rather than actually 'mom'? So they'd say mom, but write mum?

The ones I know write and say Mom.

I moved from the South East to the Midlands as a kid and remember drawing mother's day cards and being surprised that the other kids mostly wrote/drew 'Mom cards' rather than 'Mum cards'!

I've read the Nella Last Mass Observation diaries and her younger son seemed to frequently call her 'mom'. She lived in Barrow-in-Furness.

I'm from the north east, over 50 and growing up it was overwhelmingly 'mam', I still live here and I've noticed in recent years children saying 'mum'.

Both of them have pointed out that we use Mom in our house, but the teachers still 'corrected' their work. 😠

The dictator head at ds's old school put in the newsletter that she wanted parents to discourage the use of Mom because it was an Americanism and wasn't acceptable in correct English. There was outrage !

From Solihull - always said and wrote 'mom' - family background was Irish if that matters.

I’ve got a lovely poster that my lo did at school. Listed down the side is MOMMY, which the children had to write statements on. I proudly display it even if the spelling makes me cringe (Cantabridgian here).

We're in the Midlands and say Mom.

Oh and I'm not far from Wolverhampton. Other side, about 15 miles from Birmingham. Definitely not just a brummie thing.

I'm Irish and have a mom .Many in Ireland have also mams and mums My kids though call me mama or ma.We live in Germany.

I grew up in Birmingham and said 'mum' but had friends who said 'mom'. My boys say 'mum' or 'mammy' in South Wales.

I'm also not a Brummie (black country). I say mom but type mum

I do the same (though not black country). I am now a Mom in a land of Mam's. DH always gets his mother a Mam card, but I just get Mum or Mummy (as I do for my Mum)

I always used mum when I was little- married a man from Wolverhampton and when he wrote cards from my boys he always wrote mom- at first I was like- what is this but over the years I have turned into their mom and that’s how I write their cards now x

I'm from the North West and am a Mum. However, we now live in an area where Mam is commonly used and I have heard my children refer to me as their Mam when talking to friends. To my face I am Mum though, apart from occasionally Mimi as that was what one of my children called me when they were toddlers and it stuck.

Staffs / West Mids border - I am a Mom, I have a Mom, I write Mom and my accent definitely makes Mom and Mum sound different.

I don't really understand Mum - surely it's MOther not MUther

I’m a Brummie and it’s “mum” for me and my friends.

Are there any other words that are spelled differently depending on the speaker's accent? Other than regional slang maybe.

@Backofthebunty

Also married a man from Wolves, and he would address cards to me from the DC as Mommy. They write them themselves now and always write Mum (we're in the South West now).

When I talk about his mum, I actually refer to her (and write) 'your mom' and he refers to mine as 'your mum', so we picked up on the others preferred use.

I'm originally from South Wales and I was brought up to say Mam. However we moved to the South East when I was a child, and it quickly morphed to Mum. So we've had all three in my house.

Born / grew up in Southern Africa and we used mom too.

When we moved to the UK, I was always in English class because I wouldn’t use mum.

It’s interesting to see where mum / mom are used in the UK. I thought mum was standard.