QuoteThat's what I call mine when I'm shouting a question at her. MA!?Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
Not on your own OneRedArmy, I call her by her name, too. When refering to her in the third person, I would tend to call her as either "me Ma" or "my Mother", depending on the context.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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That's what I call mine when I'm shouting a question at her. MA!?
I think a lot of people in Cork use mum, when referring to their mother. If I was trying to get her attention though, I'd say ma or mam.
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I use "Mam" talking to her or about her. So does my brother.
Went through a phase when I was a kid of using "ma" like my mates but soon had that beaten out of me; she can't stand it. My sister calls her "Mum", though, which is weird.
Might be okay for girls ... I'm not sure. My 4-year-old calls her mother "mam".
Mam or ma. Mum is symptomatic of our 'Britishness'. When I was a kid only the very posh used mum, now it seems to be everywhere.
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I've heard this britishness thing before, I don't get it. I'm only 34 and we've always called my mother 'mum', and we're hardly posh.
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What about calling your teacher mam/mummy/mum when you were in school?
We've all done it!!! Instant ridicule for an undetermined period of time.
Oh jesus, I did that to my art teacher in 2nd or 3rd year in Douglas Comm. Luckily it wasn't in class, but I nearly died! Sorry about that Mrs Daly!
2nd or 3rd year?That has to be a record, Daddy.
Obviously my opinion is based on Dublin. Cork, as ever, is a whole other ball game.
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Always used 'mum' myself, as have both my sisters, even being Dublin born & bred i cant say i ever noticed it being out of place!
Curious as to how people refer to their father, t'was alway 'dad' for us though most of my mates growing up would use 'da'....
or 'mongo' as one of my closer mates refers to his, i kid you not!!
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Mine's always been Mum but that's probably because she's English. I don't seem to remember anyone else in rural Limerick using it. In fact I remember one Christian Brother taking the pi$$ out of me in front of the whole class because I didn't say Mammy like a proper Irishman. Of course the bigoted ba$tard was the first to kiss her ar$e at the parent-teacher meetings.
This is turning into a bit of a group therapy thing.
Dislike Mom, like movie, gas (instead of petrol), etc. That's all very well if you're American but we've our own vocabulary thank you very much.
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must be all the yank tourists to kerry that shaped my vernacular then as i'm an unabashed 'mom' man
A whole other country boy, a whole other country!Obviously my opinion is based on Dublin. Cork, as ever, is a whole other ball game.
Whatever about your mother, I call my dad dad, which sounds a bit embarrassing if i'm in the pub or something.
I'm with you on that teacher thing.
Often call my girlf mam (especially if she's in the kitchen).
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Ma and Da and i can honestly say i've never ever refered to them as Mam,Mum or Dad respectively
You're very lucky, Anthony; most children only have a Mam and a Dad.
"the mother"
ive noticed most sligonians say mum while mayo folk say mam....strange one
mum for me, can't believe those sligo ones are copying us fermanagh folk again!
Mam always sounds a bit dub knackerish
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