Mummy/MummyMommies/Mummies

[JollyGolightly]

Am I missing something? I'm seeing "Mommy" everywhere, where "Mummy" ought to be, in places like; "First time Mommies" and "Puppy Mommies".

I thought that "Mummies" was British English, and "Mommies" American.

Perhaps ""Mommies" is more correct in its graphological relationship to "Mothers". Maybe it doesn't matter, but it's causing me a certain amount of pain.

Mommy from the Black Country here! I have a mom too

It's true, you'd never get an English person saying "Horrible Scottish expression" or similar, it would be phrased as "that's a Scottish expression" or some such thing.

But perhaps the point that the poster who criticised Americanisms was trying to make is that they grate when used by non-Americans. That's fair enough.

I have an irrational hate of the use of mom in the UK. It doesn't remotely bother me the use of mam, maw, mommy but mom in the UK just doesn't feel right. My son always writes mom! This is my opinion.

lessons, where I am from (NI), 'ma' extremely common (as in coarse) - no-one would think they are posh for using it, and even the rough mothers would be unhappy to hear it. (I know this because I often call my mother 'ma' ).

The paternal equivalent is 'da'.

WRT the OP, I have heard some NI and Scottish (Glasgow) people say 'mommy', so it may also be found in the Scots language, or Hiberno-English.

Does it matter what we actually say? In the uk the written word is mum/mummy. Most of us don't write in our dialect.

I don't think it is too obvious from my posts that I am a Glaswegian. For example I would write 'put' not 'poot' which is closer to what I actually say.

SIL (from W Midlands) calls MIL Mom even though the rest of the siblings (also W Midlands!) call her Mum.

I'm not keen on Mom personally.

Well that's my learn-something-new-every-day ... I lived in Brum for 6 years and had no idea that Mom was used anywhere other than the US. (though as a student, my contact with either mothers or children was pretty much non-existent)

Mammy's also North East. And partly Yorkshire - my dad always referred to his mother as Mam.

And it's a pain, as I always have to explain to people, even MIL, that the boys don't know me as mam or mammy, or even mummy, but just plain mum.

I'm mammy in the NE, I know loads of people here who get Mammy then Mam as they get older. I'd say they're slightly outnumbered by mummy/mum. Never hear mom/mommy here but my cousins in Wolverhampton use it for my aunt. My American friends all use mom/mommy.

And I have seen Mother's Day cards to "Mam".

I'm a Mama which I realise sounds a dad pretentious- no idea how my children came to start referring to me as such but I love it. I would, however, refer to myself as Mummy (SE)

The pronunciation of the American "mommy" is very similar to the English "mummy". The American version has a slightly llonger vowel sound, so slightly leaning towards "marmy" but essentially they are pronounced the same.
The different spelling is purely because in American English the short vowel sound of the letter O is "uh" .

Mom is definitely a Midlands thing. Apparently something to do with how vowels were mutated from Anglo-Saxon times or something.

Weirdly, I very definitely say Mum, whereas DSis very much says Mom. Same DM, same upbringing, no idea when it happened.

My dh is from the West Midlands and his family all pronounce mum as 'mom'. They don't write it as 'mom' however.

Curyve, the majority of cards I get from my dc's either say Mammy or Mam.

IME Americans do very much say is as a distinct Mom. I guess it's the accent, I lived in South Florida.

In the US, it depends partly on the accent. In New England and other parts of the Northeast, many people use a pronunciation that is closer to "mum." In the South, it is definitely "mahm." Many people in the South say "mama," sometimes spelled "momma." This word shortened is "mom," pronounced "mahm."

For me (and everyone else I know) it's Mom. I'm in the West Mids. Mum does not suit or roll off the tongue for me. I also write it as Mom, as my Mom always signed off cards and such with 'Mom'.

My Nan was my Mom's Mam. If that makes sense. She was welsh and signed everything as 'Mam'.