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.

Yeah it’s common in NI too. DP and his siblings all call their parents mummy and daddy. Mine were mum and dad. All of us from Belfast. When my mum was still around, sometimes I’d get a call from one of the carers saying she was just ringing about ‘yer wee mummy’🤣 I thought it was sweet and affectionate sounding.

Oh well in that case it can’t be a thing can it? 🙄

No one I know uses mom

And what is now-a-days?!? Is it from America lol?

its nowadays.

Yeah, it’s frigging round these parts😆

Its mam

Language evolves.

I always thought British people said Mummy and Pa, like Prince Harry.

It's mam, not mum OP. You try getting it right.

I agree with people saying that in the north we say pants when we mean trousers. I’m 64 and Lancashire born and bred and it’s always been this way. We’re certainly not copying Americans. If referring to underwear I’d say knickers, underpants, boxers or undies.

A lot of modern children seem to call their Dads "Papa" !

As opposed to what?!

Cousins, Leicester = Mam
SIL, Redditch = Mom
My siblings, me and every kid I knew from London and the South East = Mum

Regional, none are wrong. HTH, OP 😉

Brummies / Dudley’s say Mom !!

I haven't heard this.

Do they say it like "Pappa" or like PaPaa?

I don’t think you can blame the incorrect use of staycation on Americans. They use it properly. The vast majority of Americans vacation within the US.

I'm from the West Midlands (not Birmingham). It was spelled Mum but pronounced Mom. I only recently realised that I was pronouncing it that way though!

😉 my cousin Geraldine would agree with you!

Mac’n’ cheese 😱

Thank you! Saved me saying it. Yam yam and proud here.

btw my mom is 96. She had a mom too who was born about 135 years ago. It’s absolutely not a modern import.

It's "Pappa".
It just seems quite a lot in my part of South London.
Possibly evolved from hearing children say it who are of East European descent or South American maybe?
I hear it now from a lot of the "white hipster" families 😂

Thank You 😂

Now I must admit, I thought posters that wrote mom were American, I had no idea it was a Birmingham/Midlands thing. Learned something new.

Mom is also used in parts of Canada and South Africa.

My oldest daughter calls me Mami, and her dad is Papa.
My 2 middle boys (both autistic) mostly call us Father and Mother which cracks me up, I feel like I’m in Downton abbey or something 😂
my middle girl calls me Moth and her father Papa.
My youngest calls me Mam and her father by his first name.

I don’t really care what you call me except Mum/mummy, I just can’t do that. It doesn’t feel right.