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Originally Posted by Green Tribe
In Dublin semiotics, "mam" is the upper working-class to middle-lower middle-class word; "ma" is the 'rest-of' working-class word; "mum" is the upper-lower middle-class to lower upper-class word; the PDs refer to their natural parents in the European language du jour.
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I bet Mams rashers taste better than Mums bacon!
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anto McC
heh heh :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Erstwhile Bóz
Can't thing of any real alternatives to Dad or Da.Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
As for calling your better half Mam, well, I'm sure Freud would have a lot to say about that :)
Ah I heard its not that unusual at all in Cork! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Over the post
I hate that with a passion.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
My little one called me by my name y-day coz she hears mrs. Raptors two call me by it and I gave out to her (which I very rarely have to)
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Originally Posted by Over the post
Ah ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
He was dead right.
People say they're like twins.*
Luckily my mam is a fine yoke. :D :p
*not true.
Was always Ma or Mam.
Must be a Dub Northside thing. Any kid referring to Mum or Mummy would have got some stick!!!
hardly posh? you called most of cork "knackerish". fair play for someone with a link to your cork slang dictionary in your signature.Quote:
Originally Posted by dahamsta
Mam for me, don't mind mom, can't stand mum
She is my Mum. He is my Dad. But if am talking to someone about them I will say my Mother and my Father.
My kids call me Mum but call their dad by his first name. My eldest went thro a phase calling me by my first name and I didnt mind coz I thought it was good for them to realise that yes I was their mother but I had another identity as a person in the real world too!
She is indeed.:eek: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
I call her Mammy. Mainly because she hates being called Ma. When referring to her I call her Ma.
Mum sounds so ridiculous...the first time I ever heard anyone in this country using the term was my first day in UCD, mainly used by the D4 brigade.But I goy used to it, no harm in it HOWEVER, I've heard that Ray D'arcy clown saying it and it sounds so f ucking stupid. He is from the country so it should be Mam, but no its f ucking Mum with him . He is a f ucking sicknerQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
Its snobby and ridiculous.Its Mam or Ma in our house.
mom and dad always
"Mum" for her.
"Da" for him (never "Dad", no idea why).
My Da uses "Yer ma" when he's talking to me about my Mum.
"The folks" when referring to the pair of them. Even my sister-in-law uses that term now but refers to her own as "my parents" - handy for separating the two sets.
"Mummy" is what my wee nieces call their Mum, though they've both been born and reared in the south of England so that's not surprising. Don't ask me where they get "Granpaw" from, though, for referring to either of their Grandas, to the best of my knowledge, neither of my nieces has ever been to Alabama.
Ma and Da appears to be a Dub thing.
On a separate note, I've been known to call my male sibling "our kid".
Doubtlessly a by-product of my mid-late 90s attempt at being Noel Gallagher.:o
Well my brothers have always been known as "our boys" and they call me & my sister "our dolls".
if im talking to her its mum prob cos she is english, talking to him its dad, talking about them its de mudder and de oul fella