Poll: Mum or Mom

What do you call your female parent?

  • Mum

    Votes: 437 82.0%
  • Mom

    Votes: 25 4.7%
  • Mam

    Votes: 37 6.9%
  • Ma

    Votes: 7 1.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 27 5.1%

  • Total voters
    533
Familiar or colloquial terms for mother in English are:
mom or mommy, in most of North America (especially the U.S.).
mum or mummy, is used in the UK, Canada, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.
Ma, Mam or Mammy is used in Ireland and Northern areas of the UK; it is also used in some areas of the US.
Maa, Amma, Mata is used in India and sometimes in neighboring countries, originating from the Sanskrit matrika and mata
"mama" is used in many countries, but is considered a Spanish form of "mother"


The Hindu mother goddess Parvati feeding her son, the elephant-headed wisdom god Ganesha
In many other languages, similar pronunciations apply:
mama in Polish, Russian and Slovak
māma (妈妈/媽媽) in Chinese and Japanese
máma in Czech and in Ukrainian
maman in French and Persian
ma, mama or Ibu in Indonesian language
mamma in Italian and Icelandic
mamãe or mãe in Portuguese
Ami in Punjabi
mama in Swahili
eema (אמא) in Hebrew
má or mẹ in Vietnamese
mam in Welsh
eomma (엄마, pronounced [ʌmma]) in Korean
In many south Asian cultures and the Middle East the mother is known as amma or oma or ammi or "ummi", or variations thereof. Many times these terms denote affection or a maternal role in a child's life.
 
After birthday and mothers day cards, my Mom told us that she doesn't like us to use the spelling 'Mum'. When I asked why, she said it's a cut down term from 'Mother' so to remain with the trend it's more correct to use 'Mom'.

Surely using that logic you'd be calling her mot ? lol

MW
 
Depends where you're from obviously.

I like how the people that call their Mothers "Mum" automatically say everything else is wrong or "Northern" or "American"

It's not at all, its regional differences thats all, it's like how you Southern faires put a ****ing "r" in the middle of words!

"I'm going for a barth"

No you're not, you're going for a bath!
 
Depends where you're from obviously.

I like how the people that call their Mothers "Mum" automatically say everything else is wrong or "Northern" or "American"

It's not at all, its regional differences thats all, it's like how you Southern faires put a ****ing "r" in the middle of words!

"I'm going for a barth"

No you're not, you're going for a bath!

We just pronounce words properly :)

Mum for me.
 
Mum. Other half is a West Mids native, so it's mom for her. It was her birthday recently, and I couldn't find a card that said mom to give her from our daughter.
 
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