Who put the Mom in Mumsnet?

[tornadoalley]

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 South Africa too.

How tedious. Yes, the site is overrun with those pesky Brummies

I didn't realise Nan was a Brummie thing, I associated it with Eastenders and therefore being a London thing.

But for what it's worth OP, before I read it on MN, I didn't know people in the UK used Mom and would have associated it purely with the US, too.

Not sure why everyone is supposed to be aware of every nuance of regional dialect on here. It's a question, nothing to get offended about.

Americans don't just use mom and it sounds a hell of a lot different coming from a New Yorker than a some one from Georgia. Americans use mum, mama, ma, mom etc too.

I’m a Black Country mom. As is my mom and as was her mom.

Renounced Mom like Tom round here

Pronounced

@Mintychoc1

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!

There is English including regional spoken English mom. North American English is North American English and further divided in American English and Canadian English. Naturally although the British Isles are geographically compact we are relatively densely populated (throughout much of the land) and so there are major regional variations of spoken English apart from Received Pronunciation. The USA itself being of a much larger geographical spread and population has many rich and colourful spoken American English accents, spellings and grammar to reflect their diversity and international heritage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListoffdialectsoffEnglish

I'm a Midlands Mom, but DH had a Lancashire Mam.

I remember being patronised by a new teacher in primary school for writing Mom, I hadn't ever heard of Mum!

American English comes from...English, so it's not that surprising really, is it?

See also: gotten.

OP I stand with you in the amazed corner.
Or perhaps the naughty step going by some of theses responses

Some of the "Moms" might be autocorrect, I'm always missing things my phone has substituted when I'm typing in haste or don't have my glasses on.

I never knew this! I thought mom was only American.

Oh this bloody ignorant argument again.

We say Mom in the UK.
Santa is also not an Americanism.
Neither is Halloween.
Or whatever else you're about at have a xenophobic rant about being a dirty 'Americanism', which is not the end of the world if it actually is anyway.

Just shows you should try to learn about things before getting judgemental eh?

We say gotten in Scotland.is it not a "proper" word . I might through in the occasional mam now just to see if Mumsnet implodes!

Just say mom to rhyme with from.

A thread comes up about this literally every week!

I prefer ma'am. And a doff of the cap.

My ex was from the midlands and wrote Mom. Was until I met him that I learnt it was a thing. Really confused me to begin with especially when he was referring to my mum.

You're not allowed to ask this question on here OP. For some reason people get really annoyed and offended that you had no idea that Mom is also used in the UK. Didn't you know you're supposed to know everything about different regional dialects?? Duh.

@middleager

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.

It's not goady. I doubt many people outside those areas know that it is anything other than 'mum' in the UK. It's something I only learned about recently from a similar thread on here.

I've never been near Birmingham in my life

It's only through MN that I have realised some people in the UK say and write mom instead of mum. I had always thought of it as American

But I agree that this has been done to death

@Frazzlerock

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 don't get this. If she is Irish then there's no connection with it being used in the UK