It’s mum

I’m from Wales and always used Mam. My daughter , brought up in the Home Counties, used Mummy as a child and now Mum.I have always thought of Mom as American. You live and learn.

NotAGran55

Are there greetings cards with Mom or Mam on them anywhere in the UK 🤷🏼‍♀️ ? Or any where else in the world for that matter?

I put mam into search on Hallmark, there are lots of them.

Or could can use your actual names - as we do in our family (and someone upthread).

I think if you allow for differences in dialect/area pronunciation, you end up with very much the same sound.

Maybe we should go back to mater!

Using Mom is, so it would seem, a West Midlands thing although some posters are contesting this.

The thing that annoys me (given that this is pedant's corner) is the use of Mom when the writer is neither American nor from a UK region that uses it.

It has been increasingly adopted into the English language from social media. It is trendy to say mom and not mum. I've even seen it used in newspaper articles.

Borrowed words are one thing and that is how language evolves but this is the corruption of an existing word.

Someone I work with (30 years old, born and bred in the West Country) always writes mom. It is most definitely not a West Country thing and she has not lived in the West Midlands or America. She is doing it because it is prolific on social media and a direct American influence and it gets up my nose!

Theexwife

NotAGran55

Are there greetings cards with Mom or Mam on them anywhere in the UK 🤷🏼‍♀️ ? Or any where else in the world for that matter?

I put mam into search on Hallmark, there are lots of them.

You have sent me down a rabbit hole now 😀

Loving the Geordie and NE websites selling cards and merchandise. My dad was a Geordie and I loved hearing him say mam.

I am in the North East, born and bred .It is always Mam here.My younger son, who has a strong Geordie accent always calls me ''muvva''.My older boy who lives in the Midlands has started referring to me as Mum.Young children always call their mothers Mammy.

My mother didn’t like mum and insisted on being mummy, till be rebelled in mid teens. She was strict about us “speaking nicely” - maybe she was channelling her inner Queen 💖

Here it is always Mom, spelled (spelt?) and pronounced. I go back and forth, my mother was Mum.

I do remember getting heck for calling her Ma; I think we were influence by watching Little House on the Prairie which was popular on TV in the 70's. Mum wouldn't have it!

MiniMoon

I'm a Cumbrian lass too, although I now live in Northumberland. My mother was always called Mam by my sisters and me, but I am Mum to my DD. My DS usually calls me Mother.
As for grandmothers, I had a Nana and a Granny.

We called our grandmother's mother and then the name of the village they lived in or their surname. So I had a Crosby mother or mother S........ .
My DDs were born in N/C and called me mam or mammy. It soon changed when we moved to East Yorkshire they got laughed at for saying it and calling each other man and suddenly I became a mummy.My grand children call me Grandma to my face goodness knows what to my back. I really don't mind.

Bella23

Callistemon21

utha for other

How else would you say it? 🤔

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

😁

Of course it's grass and bath.
No Rs in either 🙂

And, if we're being proper, it's Muther.

Muvva.