To hate the words...

[cafedesreves]

Mama and "tiny human"?

I don't mean toddlers saying mama, more when people describe themselves as "Mama to Otis" or similar.
Tiny human is just dreadful. It just feels so twee to me.

AIBU?

@ShinyGreenElephant

Scousers absolutely do not say mom 🤣 mum or ma

He says mum and writes mom. Born 1937. Says it's a Liverpool thing. Maybe he's been telling a weird lie all these years!

There's an advert for some shit or other doing the rounds at the moment.

"Look at me mummeeeeee" or "mummeeeeee, look at me" or some such. Not a hundred percent certain as am smashing the skip/pause button viciously at the time.

The way that bloody kid says mummeeeeee.

I want to rake out my own fucking eyeballs every time I hear it.

I hate the word mummy in all its iterations.

The mom thing is Brum also

My dad is chronic for it

YANBU I also can't stand Mama/Mam/Mammy. I read it as mam-a (as in ham), mam (as in ham) and mammy (as in hammy) and wonder why people cannot simply write Mumma/Mum/Mummy. Even Mom is better.

Someone I work with has a toddler son, and constantly posts pictures of him that say 'Wee man cut down'

WTF.

Another word I (love to) hate is "adulting".

Cray cray. Just say crazy, for Christ's sake. No need to hide behind babyish terms.

I've only seen it on here, fortunately. I've never heard it.

Baby daddy is terrible

Like men need more help to be infantilised!

My 2.5 year old still calls me ‘mama’ and I’m making no effort to change it. We’re welsh speakers, although I don’t sound it, so it’s not pronounced as a long winded ‘mumma’. I don’t like ‘tiny human’ or ‘little man’ though.

You can fight me on the ‘mama’ front if you think your whiny ‘mummyyyyyy’ is better.

*@recklessruby

Mumma Bear. Why? Are you a huge furry animal?*

Well I am fat and a bit hirsute so...yes?

But OP, YANBU.

@NeonDreams
You wouldn't like to live in the north east! Mam and Mammys are very common. I love the fact I can now buy Mam cards in most card shops in the north east as years ago they were hard to get!
I'm a Mam/Mammy and Mum sounds weird with a George accent!

WhenDC1 was 4, they randomly started calling mum Mams, having always been mummy. It drive me nutty for ages, but I eventually git used to it. They now use both interchangeably.

I’m actually quite relaxed about most of these which are like pet names for the child. I don’t see much difference between saying “buddy” “bubba” or “little dude” and “sweetheart” or “darling.” I’m not sure people would bat an eyelid at those.

"Adulting" is God awful. As is "mama" in conversations between adults. I just find them patronising.

I don't like "gurl" being used when it's not a natural part of the vernacular. I have an Asian English friend who does this -- she puts on something approximating a black American accent and says "Hey, gurrl! Yes, gurrl!" I never know how to respond haha.

I dislike the word mean as in; 'She was being mean to me'

I also dislike the phrase 'moving forward'