I bet Mams rashers taste better than Mums bacon!
Oi!
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!
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All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
City definetly have the best bands playing at half-time.
O'Bama - "Eerah yeah, I'd say we can alright!"
G.O'Mahoney Trapattoni'll sort ém out!!
Was always Ma or Mam.
Must be a Dub Northside thing. Any kid referring to Mum or Mummy would have got some stick!!!
Quoting years at random since 1975
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!
I call her Mammy. Mainly because she hates being called Ma. When referring to her I call her Ma.
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Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.
Abri o portăo de ouro, da maquina do tempo.
Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.
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 sickner
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.
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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.![]()
City definetly have the best bands playing at half-time.
O'Bama - "Eerah yeah, I'd say we can alright!"
G.O'Mahoney Trapattoni'll sort ém out!!
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
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