Calling mam, mum

**Monkfish** · 29/03/2007, 6:11 PM

Anyone else hear annoyed when people do this? i always thought we called her mam, the English mum (possible exeption in the north-east) and the yanks mom, is it a middle/upper class English wannabe thing or what?

**Soper** · 29/03/2007, 6:18 PM

Well, I call mine mum, and my cousins in Sligo do too. I'd like to think that none of us have any delusions of grandeur!

**paul_oshea** · 29/03/2007, 6:35 PM

110% with ye on this one!! i hate it!!!

**Pauro 76** · 29/03/2007, 6:42 PM

I was going to post a similar thread... i hate the middle class term. Mummy! Mummy says... Heard a posh child on the train saying that on the train the other day. It really gets on my t!ts for some reason. I call mine Mammy, or Mum. Dot mind Mom so much though.

**Risteard** · 29/03/2007, 6:49 PM

I've never heard anyone say Mummy and if i did i'd hit them, regardless of age.
Mam all the way although i used say Mom when i was ickle.

**ccfcgirl** · 29/03/2007, 6:52 PM

Mam thats what I use....

**finlma** · 29/03/2007, 7:03 PM

The Old Lady for me.

**Spudd** · 29/03/2007, 7:14 PM

I call mine ma or mom...

**Anto McC** · 29/03/2007, 8:03 PM

Ma and ma only when i'm talking to her,if i called her anything else my brothers would beat the sh*te out of me.

When i'm refering to her in conversation,it's me Aul wan.

**SligoBrewer** · 29/03/2007, 9:42 PM

mum for me, always has, always will be.

**sligoman** · 29/03/2007, 9:57 PM

Always think it's only buffs that say mammy

. Tis mum for me.

**Neish** · 29/03/2007, 10:04 PM

C*rist have you lot little to be worrying about? Who cares if someone calls there mother mum or mam

**dahamsta** · 29/03/2007, 10:37 PM

Didn't we have this thread last year?

Mum here. I always though Mam was very knackerish. Hate Mom.

adam

**OneRedArmy** · 29/03/2007, 11:31 PM

I call my mother by her name.

I now feel very weird.....

**paul_oshea** · 30/03/2007, 1:04 AM

thats cos you are redarmy

**osarusan** · 30/03/2007, 2:34 AM

Originally Posted by Risteard

I've never heard anyone say Mummy and if i did i'd hit them, regardless of age.

Thats the spirit.

**Risteard** · 30/03/2007, 2:40 AM

Unless it was your newborn, osarusan.
Somehow, ミイラ just doesn't have that annoying ring to it.
Best of luck.

**drinkfeckarse** · 30/03/2007, 7:42 AM

I call mine Mam back home but call her her Mum when I'm referring to her over here. I used to cringe at the word Mummy before I moved away from Cork but now that I'm enveloped in it over here in Scotland I prefer the word Mum. My little boy refers to his mother as Mum.

Sometimes I hear my brothers calling my Mam "Mammy" and it just sounds all babyish to me.

**BohsPartisan** · 30/03/2007, 7:48 AM

Ma.
When I was a kiddo it was Mammy. My Dad I call Dad or sometimes I call him Kevin.

**Pauro 76** · 30/03/2007, 8:37 AM

Has to be a posh middle class English thing. Vaguely related topic, a posh guy in my old job insists that Mother's Day is always "Mothering Sunday" which baffles me!