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.

This really bothers you? Do me a favor…

Brummie here, spelled Mum all my life and i’m 58

I’ve known for decades that it’s a Midlands thing.
What does get up my nose is ‘Mom’ jeans, particularly on signs in M&S. But I suppose they can’t really call them ‘baggy, shapeless jeans for people who don’t care what they look like.’

And people too often saying ‘obligated’ instead of ‘obliged’ - that’s been creeping in from across the pond.

I use both in different ways
I would say 'i obliged' if I did something someone asked. But I would say 'i felt obligated' to mean I felt like I hadn't got much choice but to do something

Mom jeans might not look good on you, but they suit some people

Don’t be a pain in the ass.

Depends where in the UK you are, no need to be silly about it.

Oh look... another drop a bomb and run thread... OP is never coming back.

This is kind of ignorant. In the Black Country we say ‘mom’. Always have.

Yeah, DH is from Birmingham & I am not.

His mother is, and always has been, mom. Mine was always mum.

I don't think they do? The only people I've ever heard say Mom are from the West Midlands, where it's a regional thing. I've literally never in my life heard anyone else refer to their mother as mom in the UK. Only ever mum or mam.

It depends on where a person is from in the UK. Mom or even Mam, are common spellings and pronunciations in some parts of the UK. Mom isn't exclusively used in the US.

It's regional, I'm Lincs and it's Mum or Mam for me. But I do often call my Mam - Mother and my Dad is the same with his Mum. Although my youngest calls me Ma or Mama. I don't mind.

My husband is from Birmingham. He is in his 50's he has always spelt Mum as Mom and his mother who is in her 70's does to, so not as cut and dry as you think.

OonaStubbs
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.

Both of those annoy me too. And I think we're all allowed these feelings of irritation.

But language is fluid and constantly changing - and regional usage is so fluid it's practically vapour. Or possibly vapor. I'm pretty sure that I - and everyone here -will employ expressions and pronunciatons that would have appalled our grandparents. But to us, they're normal and we recognise that what they've replaced is rather archaic.

So I think you have to do both things at once. Get pissed (off) that 'mad' is now used to mean 'angry' rather than 'nuts', but also recognise that English has always changed this way and it doesn't matter much now, and it will matter not at all in the future.

Incidentally, it's going across the pond the other way too. I know a lot of Americans, and many of them use 'bum' to mean 'arse' rather than 'tramp'. We probably have Austin Powers to thank for that.

I’m West Midlands and have always used Mom as do most people I know so don’t think it’s a case of us trying to be American - I won’t be calling sweets candy anytime soon and my chips are McCain’s not McCoy's!

I’ve always thought that ‘Mom’ works better anyway as it’s the short name for my ‘Mother’. I’m sure there’s plenty of people who are more educated than me that can point out why that makes me thick as mince but that’s my logic and I’m sticking with it😂

Oh piss off. It’s not American. Historians have found we said it before they ever did. I’m mom, my mom is ‘mom’ and so was hers.

Also REEsearch instead of r'SEARCH.

But in your 2nd case, ‘obliged’ would have exactly the same meaning.

It seems to be acceptable use according to Cambridge dictionary adjective
US or UK formal

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/obligated

I tried to pull it up on the Oxford one but it wanted a subscription

If you live in the UK it's regional. I'm from the South East and say mum. My friend is from the West Midlands and says mom. I live abroad and teach in an English speaking international school, most of the children are not native English speakers and say mom. Who cares anyway?

Never seen it in a british childrens book

And?
Do you think all the people in the west midlands saying they use the word mom and have done for generations are all having a mass hallucination and have in fact picked up the word mom from watching American TV in recent years and just forgotten about it? 😂

I'm a Brummie and use Mom so its definitely not just an American thing.

Or favour

Not at all, perhaps there are very few childrens authors from that area