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!

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“I was always in trouble in English class...”

I'm a brummie. I say mom but write mum.

Mom in Wolverhampton too (maybe a Midlands thing?)

We moved to the North East in the 80's and almost everyone said Mam - my Mum commented often how it made it easier for her to distinguish it was us calling in a crowd 😂

I'm very mum a mum and correct my children if they ever call me mam as i hate the sound of it.

Ireland is full of moms mums and mammies

My mom was raised in Birmingham so it all stemmed from there in my family.

She left Birmingham when she was 7 (with her parents) and moved to Warwickshire, where as an adult she met my dad and had me and my sister. Due to her calling her own mother “mom”, me and my sister both called her mom.

My sister lives in Warwickshire and I live in Leicester, we both have children and they call us “mom”.

My DH gets lightheartedly annoyed about the fact our children use that term and he tries to correct them but I’ve told him that his efforts are futile

I don’t get the argument ‘I say mom so I write mom’. I say parth and grarss but I don’t write it like that.

Brummie here, I say mom but spell it mum.

I grew up in Suffolk and say mum, though now live in Cumbria and everyone says mam!

Well you learn something new everyday. Ex is from Birmingham and he always write mom. And I always thought it was a USA autocorrect thing. Didn't realise it's a Birmingham thing

West midlands/welsh border. All mum here.

North Staffordshire = Mum

I'm from Scotland, from an Irish background, and always said mammy and daddy - as did my peers. My adult son and daughters say mum (or my son says wee maw to wind me up ).

In the west Midlands here.
I saw Mom, and Mum just sounds so weird in my head.
But I say mumsnet, which I always think is weird.

Non native speaker here, they all sound the same.

My West Mids DP says Mom, I am more Northern and say Mum.

As a PP I refer to his Mom as Mom, and DP to mine as Mum.

My Friend is from Walsall and they say Mom too.

picklemepopcorn No. Mom isn't 'Mum' pronounced with a Brummagem accent, it's a different word. Always been said and spelt 'Mom' in my family - as far back as the 1850's anyhow. I know my great-great-grandmother was a mom and had a mom!

Oddly enough, though, I know some born and bred Brummies (the proper accent as well) and none of them say mom. It's always mum both spoken and written.

Yorkshire - usually mum but we're "mummy" users in my family.

Mum for me, I'm SE but I just love hearing Mam. I don't know why but it sounds so affectionate to me

Nottinghamshire born and raised (old mining towns when I was growing up- closer to the city now) and it’s Mum/Mummy here for the most part 😊

Sussex girl here. I'm a Mum, sometimes Mother. My own lovely Mum was Mother, Mumsie and, randomly, "Mooper."
No idea where Mooper came from, but I liked it- Mum, not so much!

South Staffordshire and I say Mom and that’s what my sons call me. My Mom is from Birmingham and she used Mom for her mother (born in 1904) who in turn used it too.

Middle class families in the north east always use mum rather than mam.