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Do you say mum, mom, mam or ma

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#32 15-01-2011 1:34pm
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Fight_Night wrote: »

Mom and Dad. The way it should be:cool:

mum is for snobby posh people, mam is for smelly boggers. and don't even get me started on the people that say ma...

"Mom" is for wannabe yanks who were raised by their television.
Any other form mentioned here is acceptable.

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#33 15-01-2011 1:35pm
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I address her as Mum, and sometimes Mam. Think the latter comes from calling her Mammy when I was small. Don't know why it then changed to predominantly Mum rather than Mam.

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#34 15-01-2011 1:36pm
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Im a culchie im bloody born and bred in dublin you spanner:D:D

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#35 15-01-2011 1:39pm
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Is Daniel O'Donnell a Mummys boy or a Mammys boy?

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#36 15-01-2011 1:41pm
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Mom, usually. Mum too sometimes.

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#37 15-01-2011 1:41pm
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pwd wrote: »

"Mom" is for wannabe yanks who were raised by their television.
Any other form mentioned here is acceptable.

pfft

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#38 15-01-2011 1:42pm
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Mam.

Mawwwwm annoys me. Is it a fairly recent thing? I can't imagine too many people were calling their mother mom 20 years ago.

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#39 15-01-2011 1:44pm
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J. Marston wrote: »

Mam.

Mawwwwm annoys me. Is it a fairly recent thing? I can't imagine too many people were calling their mother mom 20 years ago.

There weren't so many American programmes on the television.

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#40 15-01-2011 1:45pm
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Mam annoys me,

mum or mom is fine!

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#41 15-01-2011 1:46pm
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J. Marston wrote: »

Mam.

Mawwwwm annoys me. Is it a fairly recent thing? I can't imagine too many people were calling their mother mom 20 years ago.

I think in the Gaeltacht, the Irish for Mam sounds the same as Mom.
But that is NOT to be mistaken for Connemara people trying to pull off an OC accent.:D

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#42 15-01-2011 1:48pm
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pwd wrote: »

"Mom" is for wannabe yanks who were raised by their television.
Any other form mentioned here is acceptable.

"Mum" is for wannabe brits who were raised by their television.
Any other form mentioned here is acceptable.

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#43 15-01-2011 1:51pm
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You Dublin folk with your "Ma and Da" should take a look here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056139287

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#44 15-01-2011 1:54pm
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El Horseboxo wrote: »

"Mum" is for wannabe brits who were raised by their television.
Any other form mentioned here is acceptable.

That's original. You'd have more imagination if your childhood wasn't wasted in front of a television.
Same goes for the "pffft" response really.
Come on - try some snappy banter.

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#45 15-01-2011 2:03pm
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pwd wrote: »

That's original. You'd have more imagination if your childhood wasn't wasted in front of a television.
Same goes for the "pffft" response really.
Come on - try some snappy banter.

Says the person that just remixed their earlier post. Nice job Puff Daddy.

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#46 15-01-2011 2:10pm
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pwd wrote: »

That's original. You'd have more imagination if your childhood wasn't wasted in front of a television.
Same goes for the "pffft" response really.
Come on - try some snappy banter.

And where have you demonstrated your supreme creativity in this thread?

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#47 15-01-2011 2:15pm
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Ma most of the time and Mammy if I want something.

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#48 15-01-2011 2:17pm
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Your Ma

Surely more cutting than Your Mum, Your Mam

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#49 15-01-2011 2:22pm
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Badgermonkey wrote: »

Your Ma

Surely more cutting than Your Mum, Your Mam

Nowhere near as cutting as "Your Mother" though

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#50 15-01-2011 2:22pm
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Mam
Being a norrie from Cork it had to be

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#51 15-01-2011 2:30pm
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Mam

Suppose it comes from saying Mammy when I was smaller

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#52 15-01-2011 2:38pm
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Memmeh!

In fairness, I think there are parts of Cork where they genuinely say "Mum" and my missus from Killarney says "Mom".

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#53 15-01-2011 2:40pm
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Oul wan...because I'm a well mannered young lady!

I actually use her first name for some reason, people are always shocked when they hear me say it - I don't call my dad by his name though, is weird...

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#54 15-01-2011 2:43pm
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southside woman

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#55 15-01-2011 2:43pm
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I call her by her first name and I get odd looks for it.

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#56 15-01-2011 2:44pm
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Mam unless your gay then its mummy :eek:

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#57 15-01-2011 2:44pm
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Since when is "Mam" the culchie version?

"Mum" is for English people/posh wannabes

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#58 15-01-2011 3:19pm
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phasers wrote: »

Since when is "Mam" the culchie version?

Possibly since the move to Bearla

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#59 15-01-2011 3:22pm
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Badgermonkey wrote: »

Possibly since the move to Bearla

The move to english?

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#60 15-01-2011 3:23pm
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I said 'mum' until my family moved to Mayo from Dublin when I was about 7 and then I started saying 'mam' as that was what all my new friends in Mayo said.

I moved back to Dublin when I was 17 and since then I say 'mum' again... weird...

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#61 15-01-2011 3:24pm
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mum and dad

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