How do you refer to your Mother?

JasonStatham

Do you say Ma, Mam, be totally pretentious and say something like Mama, or other identifiers like Mammy haha. I say Mum, personally.

Mam. "Mom" is an American import.

Spanish Eyes

Mam, bless her, she is gone now, but we all called her that.

_Brian

mam

PsychoPete

Birth giver

John_Rambo

Marie Drago

rapul

By her name the very odd time but mainly a how's the form or howaya now, family don't use names would ya be well!

PerryB78

Ma or mam, mom too American, mum too British

Spanish Eyes

PerryB78 wrote: »

Ma or mam, mom too American, mum too British

Exactly. Nailed it there.

Mum. Although, I'll call her by her name when I'm annoyed with her.

anewme

De Ma.

Rikand

Mam

Though in the possessive, when talking about her to someone else, I'll say my mum

WoollyRedHat

Yore Ma

Rikand

PerryB78 wrote: »

Ma or mam, mom too American, mum too British

Thought mummy was the British one

Spanish Eyes

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Exactly. Nailed it there.

Hardly. We're not all from Dublin. I know plenty of people from the Midlands who use Mum.

TBH Ma/Mam is very uncommon among my friends.

KiKi III

Bridie.

Mum. Ma, the odd time.

When you want her attention you can just say "Maaaa!" In a high, nasally voice. She loves that.

Spanish Eyes

Deleted User wrote: »

Hardly. We're not all from Dublin. I know plenty of people from the Midlands who use Mum.

TBH Ma/Mam is very uncommon among my friends.

LOL. Mum is not really used here.

Harry Palmr

The late....

Spanish Eyes

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

LOL. Mum is not really used here.

Dunno. I've only heard Travellers or some Dubliners use "Ma"

Mam, sure, that's more common. Interchangeable with Mum.

Most of my friends use Mum when referring to their mother. I certainly do.

ronivek

Mam, 'the mammy' sometimes, or refer to her as 'Nana' if I'm talking around her grandkids.

.anon.

I refer to her in the past tense because she's dead.

When she wasn't dead, I called her 'mum'. Or 'ma' if I wanted to annoy her, which was a lot. If I was talking about her and she happened to be within earshot, I'd refer to her as 'the oulwan', which she absolutely hated.

Quantum Erasure

riffmongous

Ma? Ma? Ma? Ma? Ma? Ma? Ma?

Edit: damn QE got in just before me

Hamsterchops

JasonStatham wrote: »

Do you say Ma, Mam, be totally pretentious and say something like Mama, or other identifiers like Mammy haha. I say Mum, personally.

Oh no, not this thread again

There should be a cap as to how many thread clones can appear with two or three years. This question re Mother/Mum/Mam etc has been asked five or six times in the last year or two!

The usual replies, the usual arguments will ensue.

Mum in our family, and most of families in our kids school + friends etc.

Signore Fancy Pants

"**** Chops".

Ma, Mam. Memmeh if I want something.

PerryB78

Rikand wrote: »

Thought mummy was the British one

Mum / mummy same thing really

munster87

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Mam. "Mom" is an American import.

You imported a mother from the US?

JasonStatham

JasonStatham wrote: »

Do you say Ma, Mam, be totally pretentious and say something like Mama, or other identifiers like Mammy haha. I say Mum, personally.

So, when did you move over here from England?

whereismymind?

The mother

J. Marston

Mam.

She'd look at me funny if I called her by her actual name.

Mrsmum

Mom is very, very, very common in Munster, at least in parts of. As a Munster youngster, not today or yesterday, I and everyone I knew used mom, we would never have used ma or mam. Ma was what we thought of as a Dublin thing and mam was too close to Ma'am as in what a tradesman would typically call your mother. Mum was way too posh and English and mammy was for babies. So mom it was.

Feisar

Mum/Mother but in both instances the u and the o are sort of a mish-mash of each other.

Have always used Mam, anything else would sound unnatural to me.

My sister's kids call her (my sister) either Mom or Mum, don't know if that's just a generational thing or if my sister didn't want to be called "Mam" because that's her mother's 'name'! Mum sounds very posh/British to me and Mom is very American.

Ma sounds a bit more old-fashioned to me, it's what my Dad called his mother.

boombang

I call her by her first name. I was the only child for 4.5 years, which I think has something to do with it.

Feisar

J. Marston wrote: »

Mam.

She'd look at me funny if I called her by her actual name.

Same same, last time I called a parent by their name was in Croke Park to get Dad's attention.

Hag, Because it s what she is.

gmisk

I call her by her first name....is that weird?
Mum as well sometimes

Hamsterchops

Mam seems to be very popular heree (in places), it's also popular in the North of England, places like Manchester etc. Mom is totally American but it's also popular in Cork, Mammy is too dog in Ballymun & place like that (Ma too), Mum is very common, and Mama is for kids learning to speak

Sorted.

PS: Mam is too Victorian.

Kilboor

Mom or Mam

Mrsmum

Mrsmum wrote: »

Mom is very, very, very common in Munster, at least in parts of.

Mom is a real Cork and Kerry thing, for some reason.

Church on Tuesday

Mum.

I, jokingly, called her mom once, she throw me a look that could cut ice.

Although I haven't referred to her as mum since I was about 20.

EmmetSpiceland

Mum. She would not be impressed with “ma”.

Strumms

Mam, or story bud.

NickNickleby

Mam.

And right now I'm looking at the mantlepiece, on which is perched a card which reads (as in, printed on the front) " Mam, its your Birthday! ". My daughter rejects all the "Mum" cards, in favour of the real thing.

As a child I called her Mum or Mummy, because I grew up in England, well , till I was 10. Then came to Dublin, and the local wideboys re-educated me.... "she's not your MUM, she's yore MAAAAAAA", whack. That's the Christian Brothers for ye :pac::pac::pac:.

Mrsmum

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Mom is a real Cork and Kerry thing, for some reason.

Yes and my elderly mother called her mother 'mom' too so that was long before the influence of American TV.

mistersifter

Mam... (edit: actually prbably say Ma more)

Irish people saying the very English sounding 'Mum' never say well withme, sounds a bit uppity to me but it seems to be becoming the most commonly used term unfortunately

Mrsmum

Mrsmum wrote: »

Yes and my elderly mother called her mother 'mom' too so that was long before the influence of American TV.

Maybe because in Irish (Munster Irish, at least) the first syllable in Mamaí sounds almost identical to Mom.

It flattens off as you go up the country. I think it's almost Mam-í in Donegal.

Snails pace

I call her by her first name.

anewme

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Mum. She would not be impressed with “ma”.

Why?