Mom

[Glaucus]

Where here does that?

north.

 

[Ricochet J]

Mother
Mo-ther
Mom

It's not UK English though is it? I'm usually the last person who complains about spelling and grammar, but spelling something as simple as "mum" wrong is...just wrong.

 

[LeJosh]

Maw

He speaks my language.

 

[Glaucus]

It's not UK English though is it? I'm usually the last person who complains about spelling and grammar, but spelling something as simple as "mum" wrong is...just wrong.

Isn't mom again from up north. Always thought it was anyway.

 

[indyskyz]

It's not UK English though is it? I'm usually the last person who complains about spelling and grammar, but spelling something as simple as "mum" wrong is...just wrong.

lol?

 

[pieplough]

Maw

+1

"YER MAW!"

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Mummykins?

 

[Ricochet J]

lol?

What did you laugh out loud at?

 

[JIM_BOB7813]

Same reason everyone calls the girlfriend a 'missus' even though they are not married. Because they see it written somewhere, assume it means something else, and copy it ad finitum

You mean Ad infinitum?

 

[Biohazard]

north.

Of where?

I can't say I've ever heard anyone here do the trouser/pant thing.

He speaks my language.

+1

"YER MAW!"

 

[Ace Modder]

In Wolverhampton/Walsall etc it's the norm to say and spell it mom.

Everyone does it, and has done as long as I have been alive! (29 years)

It is in my case, down to where I'm from and what the locals do

 

[Ricochet J]

Isn't mom again from up north. Always thought it was anyway.

I believe mam is from up north. When I lived up north everyone called their mum mam.

 

[Glaucus]

Of where?

I can't say I've ever heard anyone here do the trouser/pant thing.

Liverpool for certain, but I think that entire area says pants.

America was our empire with a lot of English immigrants, so regional language has been mixed with other regional phases and made into American English, with a few changes ontop.

 

[Biohazard]

I believe mam is from up north. When I lived up north everyone called their mum mam.

Better than calling yer ma yer pa

Liverpool for certain, but I think that entire area says pants.

Really?

Never noticed. Well I'll take your word on that

 

[randal]

Maw

Hey Maw, get up the dang roof!

Heard more than one American on the East coast say "Mum" last week, whether it's because they were pandering to my English accent or not I dunno but it sounded odd.

 

[indyskyz]

What did you laugh out loud at?

mom, mum, mam, maw.

its all the same does it really matter how its spelt. i just cant see how someone can get so obsessed over a regional spelling.

 

[EdGey]

I think its a trend that kicked off with the whole mum joke thing. If you know what i mean.

 

[Biohazard]

its all the same does it really matter how its spelt. i just cant see how someone can get so obsessed over a regional spelling.

It is something that should be celebrated in all honesty.

Neither is it exclusive to the English language and Britain / its ex-colonies.

 

[z3r0]

Always used 'mom'. Spoken and written.

 

[loltim]

Same reason everyone calls the girlfriend a 'missus' even though they are not married. Because they see it written somewhere, assume it means something else, and copy it ad finitum

Could be worse, people round here call their GF's "our lass", makes me cringe so hard.

Trouser/pant thing is a north west thing, have family from Rochdale that use it.

Oh and mam definitely isn't a northern thing, I've never heard anyone say it round here.