It’s mum

I grew up in the north east where we all said mam. Now live in the East Midlands and people say Mum. I do not care along as they speak to me!!!

It’s Mom in some midlands areas it’s Mom in Southern Ireland
I ve only ever used Mum but I don’t think it’s only America that uses Mom

Callistemon21

^utha for other^

How else would you say it? 🤔

t'uther
Bath without the r and grass and not graass .

There are many posts where you would not know which country they are in, if it is relevant they state it.

Harris27

Geordieland girl here it’s ‘ mam’ or nithing for me.

Cumbrian girl here I agree 'It's me mam or mammy', for me or nowt.
When I was young we did not call our grandmothers gran or grandma or nanna, we called them mother the generation before said mud and fad and I still hear it around here where I live.
It's regional or how high up the hill you live, or think you do.

Motherrr! is West Country 😃

My uncle married up in a big way, and my cousins genuinely called their parents mater and pater. In the 1970s and 80s!

Hadn’t realised that some parts of the country say Mom. I always thought mom was American.
In the south it’s always mum mummy or mother. No longer ma ma a la Downton though.

It's mOther after all, not mUther.

I hear it as muther and my Glaswegian uncles said mither. Never mother for me. It is interesting how many different pronunciations there are for the same word in the UK. Also, I am mum but now I have learned that mom is also commonly used in many parts of the country.
There are so many variations to be celebrated. What about the reason for not shoving your granny off the bus..... for she's your mammy's mammy.....(I should probaby explain, in case people dont know it, that these are the lyrics of a song and not really inciting elder abuse).

I think that mom or mommy is American ,
Mam is Northern or Welsh and Mum , Mama or Mummy is Counties or Southern English .

My DD went through a phase of calling me mim. Just to be different.

utha for other

How else would you say it? 🤔

Yes, I say Mom but write it as Mum and always did.
It's a Midlands thing.

Pumps
Buz (a mode of transport)
Bath (not barth)

Mazie We would say mom as in Tom, mum as in tum. Probably us Brummies would say utha for other

Grammaretto

Another anuther thing learned from GN.

My DM didn't like mum and we called her mummy or mother.
I'm known as mumbo occasionally shortened to mumb. 😀

What's the difference between 'mum' and 'mumb'?

This is all fascinating..

Another anuther thing learned from GN.

My DM didn't like mum and we called her mummy or mother.
I'm known as mumbo occasionally shortened to mumb. 😀

It’s always been Mom in the West Midlands. My mother is from Tamworth originally and although my parents moved to Norfolk when they married, this was what l called her from the time l could talk. When I started school at nearly five, l almost immediately switched from Mommy to Mummy and pumps to plimsolls, thus fitting in with the other children. I still catch myself saying Mom from time to time. I can’t see anything wrong in it. In any case, although Americans might spell it Mom, it sounds like Marm to British ears.

^ It's mOther after all, not mUther.^

I'm afraid that those two sound exactly the same to me, Kate1949.

How would you pronounce 'other'?

Its mom here in Birmingham and always has been. I am mom and my mother was mom. I've never heard anyone say mum. It's mOther after all, not mUther.

Another northerner here... I'm mam.

we called our mother, ma.
when i was little i presumed that her name was martha, and that ma was a short form.
we also had far, and he called her, mother.

As an Essex girl translocated to the NE I found it quite amusing that my 'northern born' offspring read the word 'mum' as 'mam', while I, of course, stick to my southern pronunciation.

I do admit that 'mom' grates a bit, but it's hardly a major issue.

My mother, born, bred and domiciled in the North of Scotland (as were we all), was always 'Mom' to us. She called her own mother (my Grannie) 'Ma'. None of my friends had a 'Mom'. I'm sure she must have told us why she chose to be called that, but time has erased any memory of her doing so. Knowing Mom, she probably did it to stand out from the crowd.

I went to Teacher Training college in Bradford, on teaching practice the children were taught to write Mom. Depends where you live!

I can't say I'm too bothered how people refer to their mum, there are regional differences. Having said that, I do think, there is an ever creeping Americanisation of words into the English version of English. My granddaughter describes a fringe as "bangs" I only learned recently what that means as to hair styling, it sounds utterly incongruous in the context of a piece of hair covering the forehead, which is summed up perfectly in my opinion by the word fringe. I suppose we should accept that language is ever changing and not set in stone