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 live in Birmingham - when I first came to work here, I was charmed to get a phone message from our very Brummie office manager saying "your mom phoned".

I use all your bloody swear words, say 'pissed' or 'bladdered' when I mean drunk, spell with s instead of z, o-u-r instead of o-r, and speak with enough different words and different inflection that my family back in the U.S. can't understand me....

and now you want me to give up 'mom'?

It's all I have left!

Jeez, I'd better stay away from mrsboogie with my thick Irish accent!

God i hate this, irrational possibly but drives me loopy!
Fine if it is the norm in your area/ country but i fine young people do this alot, makes me sound old i'm only 28 but my younger siblings do it, they say mum but write mom. Why? It seems so strange and awkward. I fine it tends to be mostly done by text speakers

I say Mam, and my dc call me mammy/mam. we're in South Wales.

I'm another Mami/Mam (Wales) - although dc tend to call me Mum (or Mummy when they were younger), they'd write Mami in a greeting card.

Never Mom though - I didn't know it was a West Midlands word.

i'm from the north east and always say mam, mum to me sounds like that brand of roll on deodrant!

we live darn sarf now and ds has just started to say mammy which i love but i know when he goes to school he'll change to mummy

Mumsnet is a website on the WORLD wide web!

the world doesn't not revolve around the uk/where you live/your life experiences....
so to see 'mom' or 'mommy' is not unreasonable.

Ds1 has been saying for about a year that it's time he stopped calling me Mammy and started calling me Mum ( he's 12 now) but hasn't quite gotten round to it!