Who put the Mom in Mumsnet?

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I have see mum/mother written as Mom, a fair bit on Mumsnet recently.

Do we have a lot of American Moms on here?

Has Mumsnet gone transatlantic?

Have we lost our 'Mum' to 'Mom' in the UK?

It's 'Mom' in Birmingham, maybe lots of Brummies around?

This has been done to death. It’s regional. Mom and Mam are as common in the U.K. as mum.

Yup. Midlanders, innit.

This has been done so many times.
Regional.
Step outside your bubble, OP!

Stop being goady.

I'm from Birmingham (UK!) where Mom and Nan have been used way back. My Nan who was born in 1914 used it and I daresay her parents before her.

It's regional dialect.

Mom, Ma, Mam, Mammy, Mum, Mama, Mater ... all to be found around the islands of the UK and Ireland and the latter example in the Rees-Mogg household.

We need a new acronym, perhaps.

NTA = not this again.

I’m a Mom (West Mids)

@JamieLeeCurtains

We need a new acronym, perhaps.

NTA = not this again.

Absolutely!

JamieLee I was just about to ask where in the UK uses Mater!

What they said.

And yes, I think there are quite a few Americans on MN.

I'm a Brummie
I say Mom and I am a Mom. I'd find it really odd if my son called me Mum or Mummy.

I’m from Birmingham (and still live here!) and never say ‘Mom’, it annoys me when people claim we all say that here. We don’t, I’ve always said Mum, my DS will call me Mum and DH also from the Midlands says Mum.

@Pootles34 and Chummy in Call the midwife!

Although I'll just add that I've experienced a bit of snobbery about it at work as people there seem to say Mum so normally if I'm writing it down I'll use Mum.

I'm mam not mum. The UK is not full of "mums"

I can't get wound up about someone using mom...mater I'd probably raise an eyebrow!

My husband's a Brummie and he has a Mom.

I'm from Yorkshire and I had a Mam.

Staffordshire here - all use mom round here

I can live with "Mom" if people promise me it's regional and not American.
It's "gotten" I can't stand. Blatant Americanism. And anyone who says "oh no, it's old English - ill gotten gains and all that" - that's rubbish. No one in the UK said "gotten" 20 years ago. I can't stand it!

I didn't know we used 'Mom' in the UK until I met my colleague who is Irish and she uses 'Mom' all the time. So yes it is regional in the UK and not just a US thing.

I’m from the Black Country and it’s mom.

Mom is also common in a little pocket of West Yorks- my great Granny was a mom, nothing to do with any americanism (not that I'm sure what is so wrong with americanisms)

@GotOutOfBedOnTheWrongSide

Although I'll just add that I've experienced a bit of snobbery about it at work as people there seem to say Mum so normally if I'm writing it down I'll use Mum.

Agreed. I first experienced this at a redbrick uni and then in a sector, where I worked alongside a number of people who'd been privately educated and they always used 'Mum'.

There are some MEN as well OP.
I'm in Italy and we are mamma.
Fill your boots.

I'm stunned! Lived here all my life and I never knew this! I know Mam, as my mother was from Newcastle and always signed herself Mam. Mammy (Irish father) also familiar.

So how do British people actually pronounce Mom? Americans say it is a specific drawl. How is it said in parts of Birmingham then?