Calling mam, mum

**Dodge** · 27/04/2007, 2:34 PM

Her Dad's from Crumlin (as if it mattered)

**paul_oshea** · 27/04/2007, 2:35 PM

not my point.

**Dodge** · 27/04/2007, 2:40 PM

You had a point!?!?!?

**superfrank** · 27/04/2007, 3:04 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

(Her mam is from Wicklow...)

Wicklow townies tend to say Maaam or Maaamy.

**Dodge** · 27/04/2007, 3:15 PM

Her mam isn't a townie... (and thats already too much info)

**paul_oshea** · 27/04/2007, 3:16 PM

Dodge, wow if your child says mum, an exception to every rule ( probably just like yourself

or do you get that ?!?!

), that was my point. why does everything have to be spelt out for you?

**Dodge** · 27/04/2007, 3:20 PM

Where did I say I had a child? You making stuff up again? Little Miss Dodge = the girlfriend

**stann** · 27/04/2007, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by pete

This is similar to the cake thread last year.

No, cos that had a definitive answer, whichever of the two you are referring to.
Jaffa Cakes are cakes, and it's Rice Krispie Buns! This is subjective.

Mam, sometimes mum, occasionally ma (which she don't like too much).

Never mom, hate seeing that creeping in here, 'tis but a short step from 'mom' to 'go-to guy in the clutch' and don't say ye weren't warned when that happens.

**crc** · 27/04/2007, 3:39 PM

Well,

I can't bring myself to address my parents directly. I don't call either of them Mam/Mum/Mummy or Dad/Daddy/Da to their faces. If I had to call for them in another room I tend not to, preferring to walk to the room they are in and ask them straight. I think I used to say Mummy and Daddy when I was a kid, but once I stopped using those terms (because I felt them to sound too childish) I never migrated to different words. Its a bit strange and does feel awkward sometimes.

If I had to refer to them in the 3rd person (to the other parent, or to my sisters) I would say "daddy" to my mother, but generally try to avoid the situation when talking to my dad (although "mommy" has crept out on occasion). Talking about them in the 3rd person to other people I would say "my mum" and "my dad". When back in Derry it can slide to "me moller" and "me faller"

My (teenage) little sister says "mommy" all the time (no, we're not American), whereas my other sister always says "mum"; both say "daddy". They don't suffer the same qualms as I do.

**Erstwhile B�z** · 27/04/2007, 3:52 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

naivety, perhaps, on your part I mean? It is not a question of one trying to be elitist to his/her mother, but the mother that dictates her beliefs onto son. Think about it.

No, I meant they do but to think about them doing it gives me a "mad" feeling.

Regards "mom", I know two people who say that and they're from the Aran Islands and the Kerry Gaeltacht respectively. And the poster from the Cork Gaeltacht said it's what he calls his old dear, too. Curious. An imirce is c�is leis, b'fh�idir.