Why do so many people on MN say ‘mom’ instead of ‘mum’?

[Waitingforthesunnydays]

Yes I know this is the internet so there may be American users on here. The vast majority are British though. I also know there’s parts of England where ‘mom’ is used rather than ‘mum’ but those two things really don’t account for how often I see posters writing it as ‘mom’. Is this another Americanism that’s creeping in or are there much more parts of the country where mom is used than I thought?…

Mum or Ma Ne Scotland.
My mum doesn't like Ma so mum it is.

Maybe leave your county @PTSDBarbiegirl or read the thread! AI? Love how my region’s dialect is now labelled as AI!

Oh for feck's sake. 🙄 This thread subject comes up about once a month. People who are incensed/gobsmacked/puzzled/faux confused as to why some non American Mumsnetters say MOM. (And not MUM!)

It is NOT just Americans who say it. As has been said, many people in and around the midlands say MOM, and I am sick to death of people suggesting that people in the midlands are not saying it 'correctly.'

I say MOM. Born and raised in the midlands, (now in the North Midlands,) I say MOM, and have no intention of changing the way I say it, to appease some random on the internet who is salty and irked because some Brits/non-Americans say MOM.

NEWSFLASH! Not everyone in the UK speaks the same. 🙄Have you never heard of regional dialect @Waitingforthesunnydays ?! Your ignorance is showing!!!

Imagine having so little to worry about that you feel the need to start a thread, bashing the way other people speak.

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@JohnTheRevelator · Today 15:30

It's the slow but steady creep of Americanisation. I've noticed it more and more in real life as well as online.

No it's NOT! Many people across the midlands say - and always have said - MOM, not mum!!! It's shit-all to do with Americanisation. Such an ignorant remark!

Probably just Confirmation Bias OP.

More than 6 million people live in the West Midlands. Most of them say and write mom. I am a mom. My kids (even though they grew up in the south east) call me mom.

This must be the 100th thread I’ve seen on Mumsnet over the years about this. It’s so tedious. You’d think this south east accent bias nonsense would’ve died out by now wouldn’t you? Apparently not.

In short op, odfod.

Exactly. It's fucking tedious, and I am sick of it.

I didn't know about the regional variations - there are a few nice maps showing these online, I like this one best (though I guess all of them are probably dubious!)

There are more Americans on MN, I think because many Americans read the daily Fail Online where MN was featured and I think there are more Americans in the UK in general.

Mum is just a regional variation like any other - it’s not “correct” over other regional variations. The West Midlands is enormous and fairly densely populated. Birmingham is Englands second city. It’s surprising it’s not used more.

Birmingham

I spell and say “mom”. Most Brummies I know do likewise but I don’t think all do.

I struggle to find cards with “Mom” on them. Annoys me very much!

https://momcards.co.uk/blogs/articles/mom-map-of-the-uk?srsltid=AfmBOorD5Sj8grOfGcfdwI_cHJo6gYJOvNMrp9iRvAr8dNhU8-6QF3ht

Has map which shows where mom cards are bought.

Mam is also common - and I have family who use mum, mom and Mam. There are various maps that try and plot this - one below is very rough on.

I said, country. You miss the point, oh well!

No it doesn’t matter, but I am curious about it too, and surely we can talk about things that don’t actually matter much? In my almost 60 years of living in the UK, with family living in different parts of the country, I have never heard anyone say Mom either.

100% this. ^

How many times have you seen a thread on here asking 'why do people on here use MUM instead of MOM?'

Never. No-one ever aks this!

Maybe I should say...

Why do people in the south east not pronouce their Hs? (eg: 'Are you 'appy 'arold?')

I would never ask this, because I know it's a REGIONAL DIALECT.

Are people really this ignorant and clueless?

I don't think map I posed come up but previous poster got a very similar one - Mum mam and mon are all common regional words used in UK hardly surpising they turn up on UK website.

Though given ICE and other US threads do wonder if there's more US posters than there used to be.

So what? Doesn't change the fact that around 6 million people in the UK say it. 🙄

Another ignorant, narrow minded comment.

In the US it's generally "pacifier" not "soother." Soother is mainly Canadian. In my opinion, both are preferable to "dummy" with its etymology from the word "dumb."

That’s why I am interested, your comment is unnecessarily rude and foolish. I know people all over the country and have yet never heard anyone say Mom, so I am interested in what regions use that instead of Mum/Mam. That is all, I am not disputing that many people use it, just surprised I have never encountered it.

Not true.
I’m from Shropshire, and with the exception of Telford and maybe some in the north of the county closer to Stoke, we say Mum.

Back atcha mate. The irony of you calling MY comment rude and foolish! 😆

Wrong

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I’d say grandma is way more American than Nan.

Also wrong.