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Do you say mum, mom, mam or ma

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    #332
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    "Mom" cos that's what she called hers & she's not Irish...

    I could never use "Mam", it sounds too much like a lamb bleating.


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    #333
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    Mam or Ma, Mother if I am messing with her and her first name if we aren't getting along.

    If I ever heard any Irish people calling their mother Mum or Mom I would laugh my arse of, if any of my friends did it they would probably have the piss taken out of them for as long as they lived and vice versa.

    Mam/Mammy is not a culchie thing it's an Irish thing and if any of ye have a problem with that then go and tell your Mummy/Mommy:p

    Cultural fascism now, is it :mad:


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    #334
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPSlj-OGjFI


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    #335
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Andrew33 wrote: »
    Mum?

    Mum??

    Mum???

    What are you? English??

    It's ma or mam on this side of the Irish Sea.

    Oh, I see, a bit of the old 'Anti English' speak creeping in there me thinks :confused:


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    #336
    buswankers
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭buswankers


    I'm another one for the Mam & Dad vote......have called them that for as long as I can remember, albeit my first few years were Mammy, but as soon as I hit first class I reckoned I was too cool & grown up to be saying mammy :o


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    #337
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Oh, I see, a bit of the old 'Anti English' speak creeping in there me thinks :confused:

    It would appear that "mam" is an act of rebellion against the imperialists :D


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    #338
    cynder
    Registered Users Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    Mom, not american but from the west midlands (england).


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    #339
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    I feel like an utter spa calling me mother mammy at 27 years of age, but hey, you can't change it once you start.


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    #340
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    when I was young mum, its mam now

    sometimes I just call her bernard


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    #341
    CiaranC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭CiaranC


    Mam = Culchie
    Mum= English
    Mom = American

    Correct answer therefore is Ma


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    #342
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    my mother has a name "brigid" and I call her by her name and not mum, mom, mam or ma as these are stupid words to be calling her when she has a real name. only sheep call their mother ma.


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    #343
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    zenno wrote: »
    my mother has a name "brigid" and I call her by her name and not mum, mom, mam or ma as these are stupid words to be calling her when she has a real name. only sheep call their mother ma.

    Awesome. Unfortunately, Mom's proper name makes people giggle, so I don't tend to call her that :)


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    #344
    Simon Adebisi
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭Simon Adebisi


    Couldn't call Ma by her real name. It would be too odd.


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    #345
    Dublin Chick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Dublin Chick


    I always say Mum but for some reason I called her Mam in a post yesterday and I have no idea why.....Even when I was typing it I was like WHY am I using Mam


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    #346
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Mam.


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    #347
    Tiocfaidh Armani
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Tiocfaidh Armani


    Ma or "the auld one" when she's not about and I'm talking about her.

    Mon the Clondalkin knackers:D


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    #348
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Our family refer to our Mother as 'Mum' (I think it's a Norn Ironthing)
    when we address her. I'd refer to her as 'The Mother' or 'me Ma' if I was talking to friends.


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    #349
    nicechick!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭nicechick!


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    Ma or "the auld one" when she's not about and I'm talking about her.

    Mon the Clondalkin knackers:D

    Odd I regard Ma or Mama for knackers!


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    #350
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    As a youngfella

    To your peer group it's "The ou'laid" :cool:

    Privately it's "Me Mammy" :o


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    #351
    chickenbutt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭chickenbutt


    Mom.


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    #352
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    I call my parents by their names, have since i was about 8


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    #353
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Raze_them_all wrote: »
    I call my parents by their names, have since i was about 8

    You're one of those.....


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    #354
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    You're one of those.....
    To call somebody by their name? yeah how weird am I?


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    #355
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Oddly, I once dated a girl who used to invite me to nestle between her "mamas".


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    #356
    OakeyDokey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭OakeyDokey


    Usually Ma but Mammy sometimes.


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    #357
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    It's worrying that this is even a subject worth discussing.


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    #358
    irishdub14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭irishdub14


    Mama and Dada, was embarrassing around friends years ago, now i couldn't give a sh*t!


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    #359
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Napper Hawkins wrote: »
    It's worrying that this is even a subject worth discussing.

    It's a thinly veiled excuse to indulge in point scoring and cultural grievances, what's not to like, daddio?


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    #360
    starlit
    Registered Users Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I generally say 'Mam' or 'Mom' but I have a weird way of calling her in such a way that I am using the two words together almost. Hard to describe it.

    'Mawmm'

    So neither sounds like Mam nor Mom just Mawmm! Don't like 'Ma' or 'Mum'.


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    #361
    ZombieBride
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭ZombieBride


    I say Mother, but my father is Dad, my sons call me by my name.


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