To want Brits to spell 'mum' the British way?

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This really. Why are people spelling it Mom now-a-days? This isn't America.

I have seen people from the West Midlands on here before saying that it has always been Mom in that region. My dad was from the north east and always said Mam.

I worked in the Midlands about 25 years ago and mum was written and pronounced mom, around here it's mam, it's just a regional/accent thing.

Some areas of the UK have always used that spelling e.g. Birmingham

And its macaroni cheese

Mom/Mum/Ma is regional.

There is no one 'British way'.

Now here’s a post I can get on board with…… in my world it’s mam not mum (or mom. Or anything else)

Oh dear. You've just insulted everyone from Birmingham and the West Midlands.
There is no "British" way.
It's all down to accents.
Mum
Mom
Mam
Ma
Mama
All normal. All acceptable.

West Midlands is Mom, so that is also ‘the British way.’

My mum was from the carribean, dad white English. I called her Mum but she would always write Mom in cards. I have always called myself Mum/ Mummy to my kids but they both call me Mom. DH is Irish and Mom is normal with his family. Live and let live, what does it matter outside that persons immediate family group!?

As the others have said, it's a Brummie thing. Also, some people from the north call trousers "pants".

IMO it is creeping Americanisation such as people saying skedule instead of shedule and people saying harASSment instead of HARassment. IMO it should be banned.

Majority do. West Midlands don’t and never have since I moved there 30 years ago.

What I dislike is the use of the word staycation to describe a UK based holiday (when the correct word should be ‘holiday’). A staycation is when you stay at home and go on day trips. A holiday in the UK is perfectly normal - you don’t have to go abroad for it to be called a holiday.

Nah. Im a 40 year old brummie and have never called my mom 'mum' . She's always been mom. My husbands mother has always been his mom. My parents are in their 60s and their mothers were 'mom'.

It's Mam up north

Mam and Mom are also British ways.

4 million British people live on the West Midlands. Most say and spell it mom. I am a mom. I have a mom. I do not have a mum and my Kids have never called me mum, even though they were born and raised in se England.

We exported mom to the USA. Not the other way round. We pronounce it to rhyme with bomb. Not the mawn type sound of the American mom.

Just imagine op that the world doesn’t end at the end of your street. Imagine that!

And my children, despite not growing up in bham (although born there), all call me mom. It's always annoyed me that up until fairly recently thanks to online card companies, ive had to buy cards that say 'mum'. My mom is mom, not mum!!!

It’s creeping West Midlands. Not creeping USA.

Ma in NE Scotland but my mum hates that so it's mum.
And that was me told at a very young age.😄

Yes but people are saying it because of watching American TV etc not because of the West Midlands.

I was surprised yet touched when I heard my 50 year old, tough Rugby playing BIL call his Irish father 'Daddy'. Sounded incongruous to my English ears. These things are regional. Let them be.

Mom is the British way in some areas.

They can't all be from West Midlands though (and I don't think the 'Mom' area even covers the whole West Midlands). I currently live there!
I see a lot of posts from what seem to be younger Mumsnetters, who appear to be based in the UK. They've absorbed a lot of stuff from the USA and just think it's spelled 'Mom'. They probably pronounce it as Mum though.

I don't think it's regional differences. It's American spelling etc creeping in.

I'm not from there, but it's well known that it's been 'mom' forever in the midlands.

Also, it's 'nowadays', not 'now-a-days'.

Not just Birmingham, the whole West Midlands.

signed
Proud Black Country mom.