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?…

American autocorrect on phones i think

Also americanisation where younger gens use american english. My DD10 always calls crisps chips and it does my head in

🙄

I do. Must be a thung in your local area to say mom. Maybe stop watching so much television and imitating Americans. Do you also say garbage instead of rubbish or sidewalk instead of pavement? 🤣

No. I’m from the West Midlands where 6 million people say mom not mum. I don’t even live there now, but unlike you, I can see past the end of my own nose.

Well done on showing yourself up as an utter ignoramus.

Loads of people who emigrated to Britain or whose parents emigrated here will come from nations where English is a second language. ESL speakers tend to learn ‘mom’ as the English word for mother due to the widespread use of American spelling and TV. So many Immigrant / 2nd gen British folk have outside influences.

For what it’s worth I‘m American and my brothers and I said mum. 🤷‍♂️

Oh so sorry I offended you! A bit of an overreaction on your part,I think. Plus I thought,'mam' was commonly used by northerners for 'mum'?

Mom isn’t American. It’s from parts of Britain.

Because that's my name / my Mom's name to the respective children. And I'm from the Black Country not THE US

It might be Mam up North but {mention:BatchCookBabe}@BatchCookBabe is from the Midlands. It isn't up North. It's in the middle. We named it clearly to help northerns and southerners understand that we don't need to lay claim to their lands, we have our own. In the middle. Furthest away from invading conquerors.

Nothing like demonstrating your ignorance for the assembled audience

Mum, mam etc all good. Mom is not it's exceptionally annoying!

Isn't mother pronounced muther?

When you've dug yourself into a hole, the best thing to do is stop digging...

Agree wrt pacifier/ soother.

But dummy comes from 'dummy tit' (dummy as in fake, eg. tailor's dummy).

Mam or mammy predominate in Ireland ime.

Mum and mummy are more UMC or Dublin southside.

Mine’s on British English too but for some reason it does that from time to time

not an overreaction, just probably, like me, sick of explaining this over and over again on mn where sneering at peoples accents is rife.

Ar I bin 😁 live in the south west now confusing people every day 🤣🤣

Bostin’! I live in Essex, slowly working on educating the natives! 😬

Doing the lord’s work 🙏

I use Mam (short for Mammy!), by which I mean that’s how I’d spell it on a card, but it sounds more like Mom when I pronounce it. (I said Mammy the usual way when I was small.)

My own mother said Mommy rather than Mammy for her mother. I don’t know how she spelt it. The pronunciation was close to the Irish Mamaí in reality. Her maternal grandmother was a native speaker so I think it just passed down. Mam in the Irish language is pronounced Mom so maybe that’s why I pronounce it like that too even though I’m several generations removed from the Gaeltacht now.

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Mam

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Mama%c3%ad

What's exceptionally annoying about a word used by a vast number of people in one geographical area? I mean I totally get you wouldn't use it if you live somewhere it isn't common, but to be exceptionally annoyed by basically a common colloquialism seems a bit ott.

The real question is how do you say scone.

Thank you for the work you both do in such foreign lands on behalf of our noble middle.

I totally use it in an area it isn’t common.

I shall do it even more now that I know people find it “exceptionally annoying”.

@SleepingStandingUp i was mocked only today for how I say the word singing (with two resonant Gs). I gave them an Exceptionally Hard Stare.

I no longer say I’m from Dudley because, frankly, people can’t be trusted with the word and I cannot answer for my actions if one other person says it back to me in what they think is an amusing approximation of a Black Country accent. I just say Wolverhampton now and wait for the derision of my football team instead.