Calling your parents 'mammy' and 'daddy'

I think you mean the old man, the old lade and together the old pair.

Mam and dad for me. Mammy and daddy is weird if you're more than 6 years old.

Ma and Daaaaaaaaaa

My nephew calls his Maaa Mummy no matter how many slaps I give him for doing so.

Lollipop95 wrote: »

Do you think this is just an Irish thing as calling your parents mammy and daddy seems to be always associated with Ireland and being Irish. The English say mum and dad while the Americans use mom and dad. Then there's us with mammy and daddy Is it just a show of affection,or is there anyone here that calls their parents mam and dad.

Let the discussion begin

This has been done before!

Mam/Mammy is an Irish thing, and Mam is also prevalent in parts of England, mostly up North. Personally my family are a Mum & Dad family, and I think we discovered in the last thread on this topic that Ireland was pretty well split between Mam, Mum, Mammy, & Mummy with the odd person adopting the American 'Mom'? (I can't remember exactly) Some posters in the last thread also accused of those who said Mum or Mummy as being West Brits, which was meant to be insulting I guess :cool:

Its a personal thing, Mum & Dad for me, but each to their own.

I always call them Mum and Dad.

When I was a teenager and wanted cash it was Daddy. I'm sure many Irish women did the same thing.

I loves my Mammy and Daddy.

Moved back to Ireland from UK and the eldest started school in Dublin, very quickly she dropped 'Mummy' and was calling me 'Ma'....being the reasonably new parent that I was back then, I said to her, "Do you remember when you called me Mummy, I really liked that" cue a 5 year old angel "Did you? I'll call you Mummy again!" and she did. Mummy this, Mummy that, ad nauseum:rolleyes:

One day I was at the schoool gates and she came careering out as usual.....waving, smiling and when she reached me greeted me with "Hello Mummy!"...at that, one of her school friends called to her about an imminent birthday party that she was invited to.....................Her response, "Hang on 'til I ask me Ma!!"

I gave up there and then, and now I love hearing Ma!!:).....My brothers called our parents, the oul dear and the oul boy......terms of endearment, my Ma used to just laugh..........there are a lot worse things you could be called!!