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Mom Vs Mum...

fairnymph said:
Did she ask you to call her by her name? Do you have siblings and if so, what do they call her?
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She never asked us to as far as I can recall. Never remember a time when I didn't call her by her name - and I remember rather a long way back in rather a lot of detail. I have four younger brothers and all except the youngest call her by her name. The youngest calls her "mum". However, he also has a different father from the rest of us and grew up in a totally different environment. I suspect the somewhat distant and chilly use of first names rather than affectionate names for the elder four of us is mostly related to the... difficult nature of home life before my parents split and my mother married the father of my youngest brother.
 
Shambles said:
She never asked us to as far as I can recall. Never remember a time when I didn't call her by her name - and I remember rather a long way back in rather a lot of detail. I have four younger brothers and all except the youngest call her by her name. The youngest calls her "mum". However, he also has a different father from the rest of us and grew up in a totally different environment. I suspect the somewhat distant and chilly use of first names rather than affectionate names for the elder four of us is mostly related to the... difficult nature of home life before my parents split and my mother married the father of my youngest brother.
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Very interesting, thanks Shambles. I think you're only the second person I've encountered to call a parent by first name. Interesting that you're the eldest in a relatively large family, too. It makes me imagine you as all responsible and protective.
 
fairnymph said:
Very interesting, thanks Shambles. I think you're only the second person I've encountered to call a parent by first name. Interesting that you're the eldest in a relatively large family, too. It makes me imagine you as all responsible and protective.
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Ha! Maybe you should try astrology cos your intuition is waaaaay off ;)

One is me - lifelong drug addict with chronic mental health and self-harm/suicidal issues (thankfully not for a few years now though). One spent quite a while in the nuthouse and is - frankly - a complete twat and weirdo anyway. One suffers from crippling depression and anxiety and only recently managed to leave the house (in his mid-20s). One committed suicide in very gruesome style in his teens. And one is off being Bohemian at uni (and has become a deeply irritating egomaniac of late but will probably grow out of it). And most of us either hate each other and/or never speak.

My family shares a collective middle name - "Dysfunctional" ;)
 
*weird theremin music*

Shammy, your post sorta reminded me how I find it weird that when my Mum is talking to her siblings, she'll refer to their parents as 'me mam' or 'me dad' and they do the same, like you would to friends. I'd be convinced there was something afoot if they didn't all look incredibly alike.
 
not just america. "Keep mum" or "mum's the word" works over here too, although "keep schtum" is probably better.
 
Keep mum is British.

Mum, meaning a shortened form of mummy, is 19th century.

Mum meaning silent goes back much further. Certainly 16th century. So to keep quiet is the original meaning, not mother.
 
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