Why do so many people in England use mom/mommy when we're not in the US?!

[Foreverblowingbubbles18]

Just gets my goat that this seems to be happening more and more. Its MUM or MUMMY!!!

No it is not it is Mom or Mommy. Has been for 41 years.

And MIL still needs to learn after 14 years that I am not Mammy.

I do write Mum though.

@draughtycatflap brilliant

Brummie here and it's always been 'mom' and 'mommy'

My great grandmother born in 1897 was "mom" in the West Midlands. Sorry I cant definitively say that earlier generations were Mom too but I doubt my great grandmother picked it up from Instagram or from watching Netflix too much and decided to adopt it

Midlands thing. Get over it.

Mom is standard in the Midlands, but I'm disowning any child of mine that picks it up. (If it helps, I also kind of hate Mam even though I'm a Northerner)

I kind of want to be Ma to my kids. Dunno why.

God, how many more threads will there be on this.

I'm looking forward to being told that Scotland's centuries old Halloween traditions are an Americanism in the coming months too.

Brum shaming. Leave us alone or I'm dobbing you in to my mom.

In the Midlands it's always been Mom. It's a regional thing

Not in all parts of the midlands. The Mids isn’t just Birmingham and surrounding area. I say Mum.

Oh dear OP. Popcorn time. It's dialect in the Midlands. Not that I knew that other than from MN and then noticed a colleague I used to work with from Leamington referred to herself as a mom when she had kids.

OMG, we're not in the US?

Mam in the NE! We're not all from the same bit of the UK op. Sorry to break it to you!

I just assume British people who say mom are from the midlands.

Where I am from we say mam .

I used to call my Welsh grandmother "Mam", short for "Mam-gu", which is Welsh for "Granny".
Otherwise in the family it's generally "Mummy" or "Mother" (usually men addressing their mothers who don't feel right using "Mummy". Unlike prince Charles).

I was surprised when I came to the Midlands and heard "Mom/my". Like the OP I initially thought it sounded American, but quickly realised it's a local thing that goes back generations.

What I don't get is the reasoning of some local colleagues/friends who have grandchildren and insist on being called "Nanny" or "Nana" (mostly preferring "Na-NAR", 2nd syllable heavily stressed because it "sounds better/posher"), because "Granny/Grandma" sound old. Apparently so does "Nan", according to a couple.
I mean, "Nanny/Nana" is hardly an uncrackable code for "I'm old enough to have grandchildren".

Sorry - wandering away from the point of the thread.

Oh wow, turns out we're not all from a 5 mile radius of your house OP! This must be a shock. Hope you come to terms with it soon.

You be back, OP?

It's Mam anyway 😉

I get Mam from my 17yo. Years ago he heard his grandad refer to his great nan as Mam. Scousers of Irish descent

@PinkiOcelot

Or Mam or mammy.

Mammy is racist

I also get Ma quite often too

Mammy is racist

As many PPs have said, it is a perfectly unremarkable regional variation in parts of the UK.

Get ready to have your mind completely blown. Some Americans even say mum or mummy!

How can your experience really be so narrow that you've never met anyone English person whose mother is Mom? It's the local dialect in a large swathe of the country, they probably sent it to the US in the first place.

I was surprised to learn recently that Soccer was originally an English word, used in the late 1800s to distinguish between Association (soccer) Football and Rugby Football.

Their language did originate here dontyaknow

@EveryPlanetHasAYorkshire

I just assume British people who say mom are from the midlands.

Where I am from we say mam .

There has always been a huge American influence in the Midlands

Yawn
Do people really not realise that English is spoken in different dialects?

It's whatever people like to be called, why should it bother anyone else?