Mother, Mummy, Mum, Mammy, Mam, Ma, Mama . . . .

LordSutch

Hello all you lovely Mum's, so just for a bit of lighthearted fun, what term term do you use in your house? By what term do your children call you? What do you call your Mother?

Its just a bit of fun, enjoy . . . .

Hopefully most (if not all) permutations are included this time! Vote away . . .

mariaf24

My daughter calls me 'Mom'. It's obviously not in the American sense but rather the irish pronounciation 'Maim'.
I never told her or asked her what to call me, she started herself when she was about 2

Personally I can't stand 'Mum' (Very British).

I call my mother 'Mam' We all do :pac:

Fittle

My little fella calls me mam, which I quite like:)

I called mine Mother - but she was elderly and it was seen as respect (I think) to call her that. My pals at the time, all called theirs Ma or Mam and called me really old fashioned for referring to her as Mother. But everyone called her that in our house...

metrovelvet

Mommie. Because he is small. As he gets older this will probably change to mom.

We are Americans, not Irish people trying to be American btw.

What about mamo my youngest use to call me that when she was small

cbyrd

I get called mammy and ma by my husband!! :eek: as in go tell your mammy blah blah.. or if we're having a tiff and he needs to ask me something.. he'll use the child phone(i wonder will mammy go/do/need :rolleyes:)

The girls call be mam, mammy if they're trying to wheedle something out of me..

My eldest will call me mother when i embarrass her which is more and more frequent now that she's a tween..the baba just calls me ahh or waaaahhhhhhh for now.. in various different tones pitches and volumes depending on his needs at the time:pac::D

we'llallhavetea_old

my daughter calls me mammy, with varying acoustics depending on what has happened/what she wants! :P

Hellrazer

Our 4 always use Mam and Dad but as long as I remember Ive always called my dad by his first name.

Boxoffrogs

I use Mam but my little guy calls me Mum

StompToWork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8

cynder

MOM

I call my mom MOM and my kids call me Mommie or MOM, or Mooooooooooooom

(I'm English by parentage, Irish by birth)

My husband (Irish) calls his mom MUM.

my kids have to call his mom Mamie (not granny or nan)


Found this in wiki Turns out thats where my parents are from the west midlands- i only spent 7 years there.

Mother. Mom is sporadically regionally found in the UK (e.g. in West Midlands English). Some British dialects have mam[19], and this is often used in Northern English, Irish English, and Welsh English. In the American region of New England, especially in the case of the Boston accent, the British pronunciation of mum is often retained, while it is still spelled mom. In Canada, there are both mom and mum; Canadians often say mum and write mom.[20] In Australia and New Zealand, mum is used.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

cbyrd

StompToWork wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8

that's hilarious !!!! :pac::pac::pac:

cynder

Incase anyone s interested

The proverbial "first word" of an infant often sounds like "ma" or "mama." This strong association of that sound with "mother" has persisted in nearly every language on earth, countering the natural localization of language.

Familiar or colloquial terms for mother in English are:

Mom and mommy are used in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Philippines, and the West Midlands of England.
Mum and mummy are used in the UK, Canada, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
Ma, mam, and mammy are used in Netherlands, Ireland, the Northern areas of the UK, and Wales; it is also used in some areas of the US.
Maa,aai, amma, and mata are used in India and sometimes in neighboring countries, originating from the Sanskrit matrika and mata

The Hindu mother goddess Parvati feeding her son, the elephant-headed wisdom god GaneshaIn many other languages, similar pronunciations apply:

mamá, ma, and mami in Spanish language
mama in Polish, German, Russian and Slovak
māma (妈妈/媽媽) in Chinese and Japanese
máma in Czech and in Ukrainian
maman in French and Persian
ma, mama in Indonesian
mamma in Italian, Icelandic and Swedish
mamãe or mãe in Portuguese
Ami in Punjabi
mama in Swahili
em (אם) in Hebrew
ima (אמא) in Aramaic
má or mẹ in Vietnamese
mam in Welsh
eomma (엄마, pronounced [ʌmma]) in Korean
In many south Asian cultures and the Middle East, the mother is known as amma or oma or ammi or "ummi", or variations thereof. Many times, these terms denote affection or a maternal role in a child's life.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother

Cat Melodeon

We all called my mother mam, rarely mammy once we hit the teens. My lad calls me mama when he can be bothered putting a name to me (he's only 13 months) and I'm guessing this will become mam too, although I quite like being mama. My husband refers to me as mummy when he's talking to our son ("where's mummy" etc) and I deck him every time he does it, it just sounds so wrong. He calls his own mother 'mum' so I guess that's where it comes from (he's Scottish).

Like mariaf24, our pronunciation of mam is closer to maim/mom than 'maahm'. It's a short 'a', not a drawn out one. Makes all the difference to your sanity when you have a toddler swinging out of you repeating it 20 times a second.

Chuchu

+ 1 for Mama...
I adore it, but imagine that in time it'll turn into Mam which is what we used, Mama is a bit cutsie as they get older. I just melt when she says it but she's just 1 so it's not very often yet:o we use it and Dada when referring to each other. Short 'a' like Cat said not like the posh 'Mamawh' that Prince Charles uses:D

LordSutch

Its always been 'Mum' in our family, or Mummy when I was very little, and now with our little ones growing up its the same again with 'Mummy' being the choice, and I guess in time that will change into Mum when they grow up, each to their own I suppose.

Wantobe

I called my mother - 'Mom', we were brought up in the West with no american influences so I don't know where that came from. My children call me 'Mom' or 'Mommy' or 'Mooooooom' ( LOL) or Mama or Maman ( French dad). Basically I will answer to anything.:)

CathyMoran

My son calls me "mama" but I hope that he will use the term mummy, as I do with my mummy.

I Was VB

Auld one. Ma
Auld fella. Da

lynski

we always used mom too, growing up in west. I am mommy, mom, mama, honey, or sometimes even my firstname if they are cheeky and my 2 are under 4!

madbev90210

me , my brother and sister call our parents maso or daso.. dont know where we got that from!! Other than that its ma, or da.. never been mam or mammy for us!
I get called mam or mammy myself though

smelltheglove

Mine call me mammy mainly sometimes mam, I call mine mam or ma but no way would I let them call me ma, I hate it and its just a habit I try not to say ma.

stovelid

I always used Mum.

Our two year-old says Mammy.

belongtojazz

I'm Mammy, even now that she's 13 she still calls me that

Used to confuse the life out of her friends when we lived in the UK, but I hate Mummy, sounds like an egyptian thingy lol

LashingLady

When my two-year old was a baby I referred to myself a mummy or mommy quite a bit, but neither of them got through and I am now "mam". Not "mammy" or mamma which I think is rather funny as I kinda view "mam" as for older kids when they realise that mammy sounds a but babyish. But I call my mam mam so I think that's where it strengthens...

He has two Gran's: Grandma (himself's mam) and Granny (my mam). Hubby and his brother's call their mam "Ma" and that's what my little fella calls her too! And he seems to realise that the two grannies are the same kinda thing cos he calls my mam "ma" too - although she's never been called Ma by any of us.....

It never ceases to amaze me just how much these little people like saying (whatever word they use for) "mam". My little fella sits there looking at me at the breakfast table/in the car/out in the buggy:

Him: Mam
Me: Yes Baby
Him: Mam
Me: Yes Baby
Him: Mam
Me: Yes Baby
Him: Mam
Me: Yes Baby
Him: Mam
Me: Yes Baby
Him: Mam
Me: Yes?
Him: Mam
Me: Yes
Him: Mam
Me: Yes
Him: Mam
Me: Yes
Him: Mam
Me: What?
Him: Mam
Me: What?
Him: Mam
Me: Aaaaahhhhh!!!

mymo

I get called mum or when she was younger mummy, but I was bought up in the UK and mum was the norm.
Husband and wife calling each other mum and dad to me is a no no, my parents always referred to each other by name and we called them mum and dad.

EraseAndRewind

im 'mam' to my two anyways

i use mam for my mother too

pickarooney

We're 'Mama(n)' and 'Daddy'. My own parents where Mammy (later Mam) and Daddy (later Dad).

We use these names to refer to one another when talking to the children but not to one another; that would be a bit creepy.

magicray

Mam here too !

Often its Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam !

lisao80

My little fella is 3 and nearly always calls me mamma .. unless he is cross then its moooom. i call my parents mom and dad.
my little fella calls his grandparents nana and granda and his great grandparents he calls Mop and Pop.

January

I call my parents mam or ma and dad or da...

My little one calls me Mammy and it's sooo cute... going to have to record it one day but it's exactly like LashingLady's description of it!!

Addison: Mammy?
Me: Yes baby?
Addison: Mammy
Me: What honey?
Addison: My mammy
Me: What?
Addison: My mammy! (while giving me a huge hug).

So cute...

Knit wit

My 2 call me mam or mommy. As a teenager myself and my siblings called my mother 'mother' which was eventually shortened to mo ... Now my kids call my mother nana mo!

Kimono-Girl

i always used mum, i was hoping Emma would do the same, but unfortunately my sister grew up on Barney, American tv shows and now the Disney channel and she calls my mum 'mom' and my brother then copied her, and Emma's now copying her too so 'mom' it is i guess

The Big Red Button

I tend to call them "mammy" and "daddy" if talking to them, or "my mam/mum and dad" if talking about them, most of my family just call them "mum" and "dad" though! Although I do have one sister who sometimes calls my mother "mummy" - I always think it sounds very English or something! Also I sometimes call them "mother" and "father", if I'm annoyed at them ... and all of us often call my father by his first name ... they get called pretty much anything really! I don't think they mind though.

cmrm

i voted 'other' as my little one calls me 'Ba' or 'Ba-he' - he cant pronounce his m's! i actually love it!

LordSutch

Was watching Heartbeat last night, (set in Yorkshire in the 60s), and I heard 'Mam' used in relation to the characters Mother at least twice during the episode, interesting that Mam is common in the North of England too!

mohawk

My 14 month old calls me mamam. I really don't like mammy so I usually refer to myself as mommy to him.

parsi

Here in Cork it seems to be viewed as a class thing :

"Do they call their mother Mum or Mam ?" is often used to figure out what side of the river or road they come from.

smelltheglove

cmrm wrote: »

i voted 'other' as my little one calls me 'Ba' or 'Ba-he' - he cant pronounce his m's! i actually love it!

lol my youngest used to call hubbie bab.

Seriously though, once upon a time mammy was the cutest name I have ever heard from my childs mouth, nowadays I wish it was never invented:D you know those days when you've heard it a thousand times and all you want is a moments silence.:(

Ickle Magoo

My mother is mum, my mother-in-law is mam and I get mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy. :cool:

My mam is mam.
I was momma (more a softer version of mamma) but recently that's changed to mummy or mum - not sure why but I'm not too bothered!

The Lovely Muffin

I call my mother ma, mam and mammy (not all at once obviously lol).

Fad

My mum alternates between mum/mom/mother in my mind, it was mom predominantly for a long time, then it shifted mainly to mum and then mother occasionally when I was 15 or so.

I have no idea where I got it from

alex73

Mamo!

January

alex73 wrote: »

Mamo!

My partner is Dado!! haha

Tipsygypsy

Im mommy, or mom to my older fella, although I always tried to encourage 'momma':D. I was brought up in the West and spent a few years in the States. My own mother was Dublin, she hated being called 'mam' and was always called mom. My mother in law refers to me as 'mammy' to my kids and it does my head in, but we've enough to disagree about without me bringing up that too!

MrsA

Mummy here, I call my own mother Mum. I hate the sound of Mammy, it sounds very hard or something.

LordSutch

The empty child; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01EQZ0d4Qb4&feature=related

Mammy just wouldn't sound the same

Sleepy

Funny how different people hate the different terms... "Ma" and "Mom" were utterly forbidden in our house growing up. It was 'Mammy' until we got older and started using 'Mum' which became 'Mam' at some point in our teens.

My partner is 'Mama' or 'Mammy' in our house or occasionally "mammy my mammy" which she absolutely adores...

Squiggler

Growing up my Dad insisted that we called my mother "Mother" as he though Mam and Mammy sounded harsh and "Mummy" should only be used to describe preserved human remains. He was "Daddy".

As we got older it turned into Mom and Dad.

Our first child is due in March and we're still trying to decide. I don't want to be "Mammy" or "Mummy" so it's probably going to be "Mommy", as I think "Mother" sounds very formal and properly partners "Father", rather than "Daddy".

But ultimately I think that it's going to come down to what the child can pronounce at an early age

diarmuid05

Mammy: when we were young.....
Find myself saying Mom more often than not nowadays