Mom Vs Mum...

[Part Time Junkie]

Hi guys

I've always been brought up to write mum but I see a lot of peeps in the UK are now using mom inna American style.

Interested to see what you guys write?

 

[vibrancy3]

mUm all the way, maybe peeps from uk (and just as much other country's) can pick up the slang from other countries and culture's or just adapt an american writing style.

 

[Part Time Junkie]

That's an interesting point mate and I have heard people saying dude a lot more lately too! Havn't seen anyone wright color though!

 

[RLP]

Who in the UK uses "mom"? Show yourself, you cretins.

Mam is acceptable. Nowt else bar the bog standard mum is.

 

[Cornishman]

I use mummykins and mumsie wumsie.
The latter I find myself slurring during Sunday luncheon after a bit of tipple.

 

[MrPorter]

2 of my friends (1 Scot, 1 Brum) say it as mom and spell it so but the rest of us actually speak English so it's mum and always will be

 

[parttime crackhead]

Lies. Do you fuck know a Scottish person who calls their maw "mom". Has never & will never happen.

 

[bogman]

mam or mammy

 

[amnesiaseizure]

Mine seems to respond pretty well to "schlaaag"

 

[Mailmonkey]

Devonish folk call them Mother.

I call mine mum.

 

[Allein]

Mum...always

Mom makes me think of American porn

 

[Mailmonkey]

Mom makes me think of American porn

makes me think of Romanian porn since someone posted that graphic in the pron thread

 

[Part Time Junkie]

Haha same I borrowed my mates xbox for a week and he left a dvd in it called busty moms 2 or something in there

Mum...always

Mom makes me think of American porn

 

[ColtDan]

Mum.

mom is weird

 

[Shambles]

2 of my friends (1 Scot, 1 Brum) say it as mom and spell it so but the rest of us actually speak English so it's mum and always will be

Have heard noticed some of the Brums and Scots on here typing it that way too. Think it's quite specifically regional though cos they've got silly accents

I've always called my mother by her name - never called her by anything else even as a nipper.

 

[Mendo_K]

Never ever heard mom, only when people are taking the piss out of americans have I heard "mom"

its like hey "morrmm" can you get me some twinkies from walmart please

MUM WHERES ME FUKIN WALLET, GO ME BAG O CHING IN DER !!!

or somethin like that

 

[20max10]

Mam all day every day

 

[Pagey]

I say mom, but to be fair I'm half-american (half-french) even though I've lived in France almost my whole life. So I was taught to say mom. But even though I've now been living in the UK for over 6 months I can't bring myself to say mum, I just don't think it sounds nice. And 'mummy' is just awful

 

[BecomingJulie]

I'm from Potteries stock, so it's pronounced "Mam" despite being spelt "Mum". Though whenever I answer the phone to her, it's always "Hello, Mother".

 

[Myshkin]

They say 'mom' in the Black Country, don't they? At least every person I've met from that area does. Then again, they say 'yow' (for 'you') and use all sorts of antiquated dialect words. Less so with every generation, which is sad.

The standard around here in Manchester (at least for the working classes) is 'mam'. So it must be a Potteries-and-further-north thing. A good few people use 'ma', though that's dying out as Irish immigrant families blur into the rest of the population.

I don't have a mother, but if ever she's mentioned by either myself or my sisters we use her real name. Obviously there's history, sob stories etc. behind that but it's all totally irrelevant to the thread.