to think that Mom is an Americanism too far

[Tinasan]

I must be an old fart. I keep reading threads where people refer to their mother as 'mom' and it sets my teeth on edge. Has there been some new shift in British pronunciation that I'm unaware of? Should the site be called Momsnet? Seriously, could someone can reply and tell me their reasoning for spelling mum like mom, and put a miserable old bag out of her misery

Melika - yes YOU did (thanks) but some others just put 'Midlands' when obviously meaning West M.

They do this on TV as well - the regional news programme for E Mids is "East Midlands Today" but the one for the West Mids is just "Midlands Today".
Nothing against W Midlanders but feeling bored today I have just managed to work myself up into a slight tizzy about my region being ignored!

I remember when they did a TV adaptation of 'Adrian Mole' back in the 80s. Its set in Leicester but the cast all spoke with Brummie accents!

Songbiird - the people you met were maybe Brummie refugees and not native to Nottingham

yes, it's deffo a Midlands thing. My mum was raised in Walsall in the 50s and called her mum Mom. Nothing to do with America

Isn't it Moo-ma (and Moo-pa?)

Black Books

I will always write and say Mom after being born in Walsall, West Midlands. I no longer live there, and haven't done for 20 years but I will/can never say/write Mum!! When I buy my Mom a Mothers day card I always make sure it doesn't say Mum!! Can limit the choice but it doesn't feel right to me!!

People always query why I write it and always tell me I'm not American and therefore shouldn't do it! In fact when my sister and I moved schools the teachers asked my Mom about it and marked our work wrong when we wrote 'Mom'. She explained that that is how we spell it and the school left it after that!

As I no longer live in the West Midlands this baby will be saying and writing Mum I expect....

Must be a B'ham pronunciation. I am Warwickshire born and bred (although do go to uni in Coventry). Definitely mum here - never seen mom cards,

NadiaWadia -the Midlands Today/East Midlands Today irritates me too. I didn't realise there was an East Midlands today until our aerial was moved and we stopped getting (West)Midlands Today -I'd always thought it was Brummie-Centric but I didn't realise that it only covered the West! It should say so in the title!