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Do you say mum, mom, mam or ma

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    #242
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    It's a genuinely Irish pronunciation. In Irish language, the way you pronounce "mam" is "mom", "mamaí": "mommy". My friend's mother is a gaeilgeoir from the wilds of north-west Cork and whenever I see her she asks me re my mother: "How's Mom?"


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    #243
    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    I've said 'mom' since I was a child. Don't see the big deal. As far as I know most of my friends always called their mother 'mom' too.


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    #244
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    It may come as a surprise but language has been changing constantly over the last few thousand years and shows no sign of stopping any time soon. Whats the big deal?


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    #245
    orourkeda
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    Hows your aul one?

    Gameball


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    #246
    onlyrocknroll
    Registered Users Posts: 750 ✭✭✭onlyrocknroll


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    It may come as a surprise but language has been changing constantly over the last few thousand years and shows no sign of stopping any time soon. Whats the big deal?

    That was fine up until the year the OP was born, but now it has to stop!


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    #247
    Aishae
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Aishae


    truth be told i dont really say mam to get her attention (i throw something!)

    just kidding - but we do throw happy insults at each other. people usually sit by is amazement at the likes of it :D

    if someone says 'who's that?' i might say ''shes the tree. im the close falling apple' just to keep it interesting


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    #248
    superelliptic
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭superelliptic


    Dont know about the rest of yiz but,

    I say, Your Mom! ;)


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    #249
    superelliptic
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭superelliptic


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24sB2hxrU3g

    My god that was strange.

    People must have been really, really easy to entertain 100 years ago.

    And the Black Face bit? ffs...


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    #250
    CommuterIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭CommuterIE


    amdublin wrote: »
    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.

    They sound knackerish


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    #251
    skregs
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    hondasam wrote: »
    what's wrong with mom ?

    She's gone Sam. She's gone and she's not coming back.


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    #252
    Standman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    Ye can take yer "mom"'s and yer "awesome"'s and fúck right off


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    #253
    Aishae
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Aishae


    saw a young cousin post on their fb staus last night - awesum.
    spelt like that too - its like watching a language die:rolleyes:


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    #254
    uriah
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭uriah


    Biggins wrote: »
    Who cares - at least you might have one to call that!
    Others might not be so lucky so appreciate it that you can!

    I can never understand the need to call one's mother and father by anything other than their names.

    Hate to hear a big man refer to a littly elderly woman as 'mammy'
    Hearing some parents call each other 'mammy' and 'daddy' makes me grind my teeth.

    But it's a free country.


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    #255
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Aishae wrote: »
    saw a young cousin post on their fb staus last night - awesum.
    spelt like that too - its like watching a language die:rolleyes:

    Facebook status are unbelievable for spelling and such,people I know who are on computers still use text speak.


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    #256
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    I was having a conversation with a woman (from Kerry) who asked the very same question, except her ire was directed at 'mum', and she was asking what's wrong with mam/mom/ma. For her, 'mom' is normal, as she's Irish speaking and it sounds closest to the Kerry Irish. She was claiming 'mum' was the big evil generic name (this time coming from Britain).

    Point is, unless you changed how you addressed your 'mother' (except maybe from 'mammy') what you call her is what is natural to you.


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    #257
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I called my mother "mammy" when I was small, then it suddenly morphed to Mum... occasionally Mam in memory of the mammy days...


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    #258
    Mr Benevolent
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    I use mom.


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    #259
    alexjk
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    Aishae wrote: »
    saw a young cousin post on their fb staus last night - awesum.
    spelt like that too - its like watching a language die:rolleyes:

    Or a language evolve. Spellings change over time as well as new words being created. If anything, it's a great sign that English is moving with the times.


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    #260
    Victor
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    amdublin wrote: »
    What is with Irish people calling their mother MOM???
    I'd feel awfully confused if I called here "Dad".


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    #261
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    I use mum.


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    #262
    IrishEyes19
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭IrishEyes19


    I have always said Mam. Mammy when I 5 and under........and then Mam from there-on. I once came home from primary school aged six and hearing other kids using the word Mom, attempted it. But that didnt last more than one attempt and I was quickly converted back to mam again.


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    #263
    Chnandler Bong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Chnandler Bong


    Ross from Friends: Mommy


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    #264
    IrishEyes19
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    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Yeah i'd rather that^ than hearing irish people saying dude every 5 seconds. I think us irish are kind of cool in our own way, we don't need to mimic other cultures, we have plenty of our own culture.

    It just sounds so so sad in a i-wanna-be-a-weed smoking-baggy jean wearing-californian-surfer sort of way.

    Aww dude!

    ???fcuk off.

    Have to agree with this, if I hear the words epic, dude, man, awesome, one more time.......it's head wrecking. A lot of friends will also reply to messages with Hey CHICK. So annoying.

    Ive nothing against language progression either. But it's annoying to see our own linguistic characteristics being replaced with American English all the same. And thats not embracing pure Irish tradition. I just find it bizarre to hear people talking like that and frankly its irritating.


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    #265
    Kojak
    Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Anyone here call their parents by their first name?


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    #266
    Chnandler Bong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Chnandler Bong


    Kojak wrote: »
    Anyone here call their parents by their first name?
    Thats not right


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    #267
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    Kojak wrote: »
    Anyone here call their parents by their first name?

    i do if i'm talking about them, eg to my siblings, but not when talking to them


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    #268
    onlyrocknroll
    Registered Users Posts: 750 ✭✭✭onlyrocknroll


    Confab wrote: »
    I use mom.

    That's mean. What do you use her for.


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    #269
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    Jeebus H Christ I hate these stupid threads. Where I'm from is near to a large Gaeltacht area in Kerry, every single person I knew growing up said Mom, because it comes from the Irish, Mamaí, a Mham, which has the same sound as the "o" in Mom. My friend who grew up in the Gaeltacht says Mom whether she's speaking English or Irish, and my dad and all his siblings call their 90 year old mother Mom since forever, and they didn't even have a tv never mind watch enough to know about American culture.

    Don't get me started on Mammy, my God, it just conjures images of Brenda Fricker beside a stove with a pot of tea.


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    #270
    xaoifsx
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭xaoifsx


    i say mom sometimes...but usually when im talking about other peoples mothers.. but i dont do it that often its just by accident!! i get given out to about it when i do!! but it is completely by accident!!


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    #271
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    hondasam wrote: »
    what's wrong with mom ?

    **** say Mom, to be fair. It's an Americanism. It shows the paucity of our culture when we have to ape a foreign country. Mum is also the preserve of the wanker. Their use shows further evidence of the deep seated self loathing we have for ourselves through the denial of Hiberno-English.

    In Ireland it's Mam or Mammy.


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