Mother, Mummy, MUM...

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Anyone find it irritating when British people write mom instead of mum? They still pronounce the word mum, but spell it the American way? Why???

Its a dialect spelling in some parts of England.

The only people I know who use mom are from Birmingham/Black Country and it is definitely not American, it's just how it has always been there.

Ive always called my mum mum, even though she always signed cards mom. Its a regional thing.

Yes, it’s a regional thing OP. I have family in Birmingham and they have always used “mom”.

No, because Iearnt on here that it's regional. But I do find it annoying when it's capitalised unnecessarily.

I mean, I’m not even from the UK and I know about the West Midlands ‘mom’ usage.

I find it weird ( and cringey) when adults call their mother mummy!

Regional dialect ("Mom" has been done to death on MN) isn't really what Pedants' corner is about.

I remember when I moved to uni and discovered no one out of Birmingham said Mom 😆it’s always been that way in my region - even my great granny who certainly wasn’t Americanised still said Mom.

Not this again!! I am from the Black Country. We say mom and spell it the same way.

It’s that time again already? Gosh these annual Mum/Mom threads seem to come around so quickly these days!

I grew up in the West Midlands, and use Mom, always have, and so did all the kids I went to school with. It’s not an Americanism.

In parts of Yorkshire, and possibly Liverpool? Some people say ‘mam’ or ’our mam’. A local card shop sells cards with ‘Mam’ on them.

Welsh people commonly call their mother mam. (It’s the Welsh word for mother.)

Here we go again!

And most of the northeast

Completely normal dialect in many parts of the UK and YABU

And this topic has been done 1000 times

Completely normal in Northern Ireland

Mom isn't "American".
USA, Canada, South Africa and SOME PARTS OF THE UK call their mothers "Mom".
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Completely normal in the Midlands.