Do you say mum, mom, mam or ma

kelle

Used to be "Mum", sometimes "mother dearest" if I wanted something!

rorrissey

Mamaí agus dada...

pow wow

rorrissey wrote: »

Mamaí agus dada...

Mise freisin. Except she's a Brit and doesn't get it so I drop the i at the end and do it in a posh accent to make her feel less of a foreigner :pac:

Sunnyisland

Ma

tatabubbly

Mammy, i'm 22 and pretty sure that won't be changing..

When i want her attention though and she's waffling on, i'll call her mother to annoy her

Maddison

I say ma but I wont allow my son to call me It, I told him he could call me mum or my real name.

whiteonion

I say "mother".

carwash_2006

Mum or sometimes if I'm talking about her Mother or her christian name.

Mom sounds very american to me and Ma just doesn't suit our family. Mammy is something I would associate with native Irish speakers, but I suppose it should be Mammai (dunno how to do a fada).

alwaysadub

Mam.
Mother when i am sarcastically agreeing with her!

Kerikosan

mam

SEPT 23 1989

MAM

darragh16

D'Aul Wan or D'Aul fella

Pace2008

Ma or Mam. Northside scumbag, me.

I'd agree "Mum" sounds ridiculous coming out of somone from Dublin, but it seems standard down in Cork and fits in fine with the accent.

partyndbs wrote: »

i say mum and think calling them mam or ma is disgusting well country folk can get away with saying mam but dublin people it is horrible

Accent and choice of idioms are not the only areas in which one can let oneself down. Your written English, for example, is pretty ****ing horrible.

Fart

Sister.

offaly1

Maaaaa..... 28 and i dont think it will change!! thou maybe mam at times....

FoxT

My parents have shuffled off this mortal coil - but I used to call them 'Ma' & 'Da'. It was affectionate, I liked it, and so did they. My children use a mix - 'Da', 'Dad', or 'Mum' (when I am dressed up.... ) Again, I like it, so do they.

But this, the OP, is deadly....


i say mum and think calling them mam or ma is disgusting well country folk can get away with saying mam but dublin people it is horrible

WOW!! Clearly I am missing something here. I was born in Dublin but never lived there. Have I missed out on something important?
If you call your parents 'mam' or 'da' does that mean that you belong to some kind of neanderthal subspecies?

Just askin...

cassid

mam,

i get called mammieeee by the youngest or ma ma or mammy by the 4 yr old with obviously speaks a bit of french

Abi

I'd call her mom, when Im giving out about her its 'my mother' >_>

She taught us to call her mom rather than mammy or ma etc, so I've always called her that.

Yakult

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

jackiebaron

It varies on the circumstances. I too am a Nort'soider so I refer to the 'rents as me ma and me oul boy or oul lad when I am in conversation with others. Addressing them directly I say Mum or Dad (well the oul boy's passed away now so..).

When my mother has a strop on I condescendingly address her as mater, mother or by her first name:

"Don't get tetchy, Mater"
"My! My! What an outburst, Mother!"
"Cool your cannons, there, Katherine!"

And when I want to be a bad son ala Nick Cotton I say:

"Oi! Woman! What's for dinner? Did you get them beers like I ordered?"

(she usually looks up from the crossword and says "you know where the cooker is, child!").

Mummy is faaaackin gay!
Mom is equally pathetic.

Buceph

Mammy.

Although that stopped as I hit puberty and ran into my teens and I started calling my mother by her first name. She's still bitter about it, occasionally getting in a huff and demanding I call her Mammy again. Just sounds weird to my ears though.

jackie1974

I call my mother mam and my kids called me mam can't imagine saying anything else. Although it can be a bit annoying when kids draw out the maaam, can feel like your living with a flock of sheep.

Little Acorn

I say Mum, and I am not British, posh, snobby, rich, or from a certain part of Dublin [infact am from the opposite side of the country], nor did I watch too much British television shows growing up or any of the other things that people have stated on this thread.
Nearly everyone I know says Mum.:)

Pandoras Twist

By her first name.

brummytom

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

'Mom' is American.

Every fucking time this topic comes up, this horseshit is trotted out.


'Mom' is a Birmingham word, that's been in usage here since before America was discovered. Please don't call it an American word. I might be a lot of things, but a wannabe-American isn't one of them

amdublin

What's wrong with mother/mam/mammy/ma like we used to always say??

Why are people starting this american sh1t and saying Mom??

I was in a thread in Legal Discussions yesterday: Mom
Personal Issues today: Mom

Very irritating.

Edit.
Mum is also okay. If you are posh.

admiralofthefleet

the hills/crap american shows on mtv are to blame

Ickle Magoo

Perhaps their mothers prefer that to the nasal drawl of Maaaaa! like nails scraping down a blackboard?

keane2097

Get a hobby imo.

PrincessLola

I say MUM.



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