AIBU to not want to be called the version of ‘mum’ DH and family have in mind

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All the other kids in the family have a slight regional variant for mum or mummy but I don’t like it ... aibu to just want to be mum or mummy?

I was Mummy, DD is Mama to hers.
Mammy is great. I like it. DM and DAunt called their mother 'Mam'. Someone said, years before I had a child, that I'd 'be a great Mam,' I thought that was lovely.

@lalalalaloo

I have a Mam, I am from a Mam area but DH and family are quite a bit posher than I so my kids call me Mummy.

They've also no Northern accent perceptible which is sad to me. Well except when they say 'wort-ta' instead of 'wort-er'

That made me laugh! I have lived in the south a lot longer than I lived in the North and have lost a lot of my accent. However my oh from Reading always picks up when I say Film pronounced the Geordie way 'Filum'! One brilliant thing about being a Northerner you can hear the accent in a crowd and strike up a conversation with a complete stranger! This was something I found quite sad when I moved away from home. Southerner's look at you as if you have two heads if you try to start a conversation with them!