to find it odd that I keep seeing the word 'mom' or 'mommy' on this website?

[PintandChips]

I keep thinking i've accidentally logged onto an American version. Surely it's Mum and Mummy???

I'm a Brummie and hate mom and mommy, it sounds so common!

mom or mommy for me, yep common brummie here

The internet goes all over the world now.

I hate Mum and Mummy and I can't even say it out loud if I am reading a book.

I'm from the W. Mids. and I've never come across the mom/mommy thing. Which isn't to say it's not, just that I haven't come across it.

I find it a bit odd because the posts I've spotted it in didn't seem to be American.

Also, I thought people of my age (40+) would be used to spelling mum/mother/etc. irrespective of the pronunciation. So i was wondering if it's an age thing.

Ive always thought it was an American/Canadian thing, never knew that about brummies saying it and I live quite near birmingham too. (must walk round with head in clouds lol)

me and dp use mum for mine and mom for his and yes he is a yank, but then I grew up with my mum calling her mum ,mam and there from manchester though orignally irish

yep. some of us are foreign and use crazy foreign words!

i'm canadian. i use mom generally (DH's mum is mum but they're british) but i don't feel i should change the way i speak (type) just to conform to everyone else.

I also had no idea that Brummies said "Mom". I don't find it odd though, I've had a lot of contact with "Moms".

The Mam/Mum thing is an issue in our house at the moment. My Mam is "Mam" and she will always be Mam. However, I want to be "Mum" to my DD. I spent most of my adult life down South, nannying for children who use "Mum" and I prefer "Mum". So does DP.

However, every time my Mam talks to my DD about me, she calls me "Mammy". It drives me up the wall. Think I'm going to have to start referring to her as "Granny" (she hates it and wants to be "Nana") until she gets the message.

I grew up in the West Midlands and my mom is Mom (as is everyone else's mom I know there!) although I'm going to be Mum(my) as we live elsewhere now. I don't dislike Mom though; I find hearing it quite nostalgic!

am cdn but grew up saying (and spelling it) mum or mummy. Can't stand the way its said by the majority of my fellow cdns and americans I have to say, really grates.

YANBU, I hate it too! My sis calls my mum 'mom' now cos she has moved to america, it really annoys me!

Up here in scotland, people say 'maw', which is just as bad in my opinion!

Im a Brummie and I always say Mom and write Mom- It sounds really strange saying 'Mum'

my dad says Mom and he's a Yorkshireman (with a rather embarrassing general dislike of Americans and anything American)

I'm more disturbed by adults that call their parents 'mummy' or 'daddy' - now that really freaks me out.

I'm so much a Midlander (Black Country rather than Brum, though!) that I always thought all the people spelling it "mum" just couldn't spell!

the thing is that all over Britain the word is pronounced differently because we have such a wide variety of accents, but i thought that it was written the same everywhere i.e. Mum/Mummy (in the same way that bath, grass etc are pronounced differently yet the spelling is the same), with the exception of Mam, which personally I like, so i had always associated the 'o' spelling with the US/Canada... now i know it's also Brummie, which I still find a bit odd. Because in reading it, the voice in my head gives the word Mom an American accent which often sounds out of context with what I'm reading. Now I will give it a Brummie accent and it will make sense!

Same here, Pintandchips - I was aware that Brummies pronounced it 'Mom' but surprised to find they right it that way, too. I'm from Yorkshire, people say 'reet' or 'raight' for 'right' but we still write 'right'!

Got mixed up with all those 'rights', of course I know how to spell 'write'!

I am from Worcestershire and say "mum" but write "mom", but only on here as I have bred 2 Lancashire lads and I don't want to confuse them.
So at home etc, I write "mum"

Clearer now?
Because I am not!

That's so weird, I had no idea mom was a Midlands thing. Surely there aren't any other words where regional accents dictate a regional spelling? I can't think of any, anyway.

I always forget that Americans say mom when they're speaking though, it sounds more like 'marm' to my ears. Not 'mom' like I want to say it, to rhyme with 'dom' or 'nom'.

But I don't mind mom though really, and I guess it's technically a more correct abbreviation of mother.

DH is from the northeast - it's all Mam there (not just Ireland)...

hell you should try being in our house we have cell phones and mobiles, knickers and panties and so on ,dd calls rubbish truck a garbage van but shes born and bred essex,

so mum and mom is pretty easy

It's a South African thing too - it's Mom/Mommy there. I find the word Mum/Mummy very strange on my tongue.