While living in Cornwall i notice that most people refer to there mother as 'mum'. I find it a tad irritating (sorry). I was brought up using 'mam', and find it more to my taste.
Is 'mam' a northern thing? I am from Newcastle btw. What do you guys use? Where does it meet in the middle in the country?
Mom ;)
mom isn't allowed
it is retarded.
i say mom too.
it's not retarded. >:(
oh what!
i say 'mom' too. it's the way. i'm american!
mam
in durham
Mum
or maman
Mum.
I don't know anyone who says Mam so maybe it is Northern...
mam
i'm from tha rhondda butt
umm
I call mine "the Barrel"
^ha
'mom'
in birmingham. some people ue 'mum' though, 'mam' is rare.
*use
mam is unacceptable from below south yorkshire
you just want to be a northerner.
that's why i don't say 'mam'
I call my Mum Mum.
I am from Glasgow, and it should probably be Maw, like some of my inbred fellows, but I can put on a mean Glasgow accent when I need to.
Aye, ah khan ya fuckin wee prick, 'mre you ya fuckin fudd. etc.
Mum is correct.
Mam is also acceptable.
'Mummy' is not. It means you're spoilt and upper class.
Mumsy?
what about mother?
Slightly better, because it's
affectionately soppy.
that like saying
everyone who says 'Mum' is a pikey
My parents never wanted to be known as mum and dad. i am def middle class. but i'm not spoilt. I also don't like mum and dad, but i would never say 'mummy' (though i know a lot of people who do - especially girls) so I for as long as i can remember i've said 'm' and 'd'...
im a pikey
but i got an education
yer maw
Mum to her face, mam to anyone else.
And this is the correct way.
My mate used to call his mum & dad Sue & Dave. Why the fuck would you do that? (They were their names, by the way, but it's such a stupid cretinous middle class thing to do)
Ha, I;d prefer it if they were really called Donald
and Patrica.
I say "Mum" and I'm from Yorkshire
my mate from Mile End uses "Ma"
We in the West Midlands
generally use Mom, although i much prefer to use Mother.
Mum
In the most southern accent imaginable.
But southerners don;t have accents.
We speak the Queen's English.
Ok then.
Mum. As eloquently as possible.
Hehe
All english have accents. Except for the dialects that sound like gibberish.
SoCal = mom. No accent. Just good ole american english as god intended.
Mum obviously.
Mam is used for adressing the queen and irritating customers.
You pronounce 'Mam'
as 'Marm' in those situations.
mummy
most definitely. Im from the midlands
Mam as in ham,
not mam as in jam. Apparently.
Although
* Although,
I have trouble with this as I pronounce ham and jam almost identically similar.
Don't you mean
Mam as in harm?
If you read this little factoid somewhere it's likely they accidentally dropped the 'r'.
simple
mam = working class
mum = middle class
mummy = upper class
Not entirely true.
I think mam is an English thing perhaps, or a Northern English thing anyway. I know nobody of any class who says mam around here.
its quite strange for me
i'm from a working class london background, and i call my mum "mum" and my dad, "dad".
yet when referring to them to another family member, say talking to my nan about my mum, i would say "oh yeah mummy's alright" or something.
just try to imagine this being said from someone with a cockney sort of accent.
i know people who call their parents by their first names. that to me is quite fucked up.
I call my step-mum her own name to her face,
but refer to her as my step-mum to everyone else.
I sometimes call my mum Dot (her name's Dorothy). I don't think she likes it, but I do it anyway.
mum
Mum definitely
I never really heard anyone say Mam until I moved to Liverpool - they even have a special section of 'Mam' cards in the local Clintons
<insert múm joke>
mother
always.
Ma,
occasionally Mother.
mum
definitely, even though I'm 'from the north'. Cue Dalkin telling me I'm a fake northerner :D
Mum
I'm from Northwest England.
Mum.
Or sometimes mommie dearest:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082766/
mummy
:(