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!!!

@Clevererthanyou

I go by “Steve” but to each their own.

"Steve" is definitely racist, though. Homophobic too.

It gets my goat that all the birthday and Mother’s Day cards say “MUM” 🤷🏻‍♀️

Because my mom is Canadian

I go by “Steve” but to each their own.

"Steve" is definitely racist, though. Homophobic too.

As others have said it’s common in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Just because you grew up with one way of speaking doesn’t mean it’s the only way!

i've always called my mom, mommy,mami,mama i'm in london.. and my daughter calls me mummy haha.
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Not this one again... ...

I'm a mum. They right it as mum. But sometimes sounds like mom. Thats the local influence.

*write 🙈

My phone autocorrects mum to mom all the time 😫

@Ethelfleda

Dialect.

Honey I am in West Mids but not from West Mids.

We say mum / mummy and that what I've always been.

But when kids speak it, it often sounds like Mom. Especially if they are asking for something.

So I think that's because they hear some of their friends saying Mom.

But they write it the way we have taught them to right it. Although the odd thing that came home from nursery had 'mom' depending on who helped them.

@PinkiOcelot

Or Mam or mammy.

It's Mam in North Wales.

Another North Walean who had a Mam.

Lovely bit of xenophobia Op!

This was a good laugh.
I call my mum ma or mother if I’m being whimsical. Mom doesn’t work with my Reading accent.

the majority of people in the NE, some areas of Wales and Ireland say Mam or mammy regardless of their racial background - I lived in one of these areas growing up and know plenty of black family where the mother is mammy and then later Mam, because it's the local dialect. They don't seem to find it racist? @Leaannb

@Honeybobbin err, it was in answer to the question

Don't know why AIBU is always so fraught!

Always been mom here, Black Country. That or y mother and dad.

The British Isles have a long and complicated history. To lump the different nations in together is offensive to loads of people in NI, Wales and Scotland.

And lumping us all in under the term British Isles can also be offensive but that's a whole other topic.

Yes I used the British isles specifically because mammy is used in Ireland and had asked that poster what her view on Irish people using it was.

I note you have trimmed a whole load of my post out there. This sort of chopping bits of posts out and ignoring context just to make a point is really annoying.

I live in West Wales and children here say mammy or mam
we moved here from London in January and my children are the only ones i have heard say mum.

I note you have trimmed a whole load of my post out there. This sort of chopping bits of posts out and ignoring context just to make a point is really annoying.

My issue was solely with the term British Isles, so I selected the piece I had an issue with. It's unfortunate if that annoys you.

Whenever I see the term British Isles used I like to highlight the problems with it. It's as much about making more people aware of it as anything else. I find most people don't even know that the Irish Government have disavowed it or how politically laden it is.

Anyway, that is a topic for another thread.