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What do you call your mother?

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  • #102
    ceecee14
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 215 ✭✭ceecee14


    I call her Mother. Maa when I was younger


  • #103
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Always called mine by her first name. She never liked being called mother, mammy etc.

    Mine call me Mam, Mom and Momma.


  • #104
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Er indoors


  • #105
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Zemuppet wrote: »
    Mum to me in Ireland is more of Protestant thing if the family arn't British.

    Sure-fire sign of a prod. Well, that and an aversion to transubstantiation.

    I don't recall 'taking the soup' as a child, but I always called her 'mum'. Or 'maaaaah' (in a really strong Dublin accent) if I wanted to wind her up (she didn't like 'ma' at all).


  • #106
    glaswegian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭glaswegian


    mammy when i was wean,ma since teenage. another glasgow term for mother is "maw".


  • #107
    Crumpets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Crumpets


    Mammy :)


  • #108
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Mater
    Though, tbf, I'm a pretentious t*at.


  • #109
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    De Ma


  • #110
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,003 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Mam. Always and ever.

    Although there are some names I keep in reserve for the woman. And she has some for me too!

    Love is mad.


  • #111
    Kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    I've called both my parents by their first names since I was about 11. I started doing it at that age because it really irritated them. Kind of how Bart kept saying Homers name. After a while it just kind of stuck.

    I know its judgemental of me but I do cringe at fully grown men and women calling their parents "mammy and daddy". Yes, they will always be your mams and dads but they have names and you aren't a toddler. You will always be their child but they don't speak to you in a baby voice or call you childish pet names......they speak to you normally and use your name.

    Or at least most do. :p


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  • #112
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,003 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I would kill my kids if they called me by my name i.e. Spanish.

    There is no respect anymore for Mam who pushed you out to be an obnoxious prick is there.


  • #113
    Kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    Respect has absolutely nothing to do with this. I knew a junkie who stole from his own mother to get his fix. He called her mam. He didn't respect her.

    You are attributing respect or lack there of, to a name. Whether you call your mother by Mam, Mum, Mom, or her name has no bearing on your respect for the person. You are projecting with those Spanish eyes of yours.


  • #114
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Kirby wrote: »
    I've called both my parents by their first names since I was about 11. I started doing it at that age because it really irritated them. Kind of how Bart kept saying Homers name. After a while it just kind of stuck.

    I know its judgemental of me but I do cringe at fully grown men and women calling their parents "mammy and daddy". Yes, they will always be your mams and dads but they have names and you aren't a toddler. You will always be their child but they don't speak to you in a baby voice or call you childish pet names......they speak to you normally and use your name.

    Or at least most do. :p

    I think it's more a sign of respect to call them by their titles than childishness.


  • #115
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    Mum mostly. She's English so Mam was never an option. A dragged out 'Maaaaaaa' was a great way to annoy her.

    But Mam would be an option if she was from the North of England (where Mam rules)!
    Mum is more common in the south of England . . .


  • #116
    StripedBoxers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭StripedBoxers


    Mam, ma and mum.

    She prefers being called by her first name, so that's what I usually call her.


  • #117
    PLL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    My 4 year old calls me Nee-nee. She knows I'm her 'mommy' as they would call me in her playschool but she has never called me it. If I was to choose a way I would want her to call me Mama as that is what my dad calls my grandmother and I grew up associating that word with the love and affection he has for her, but instead I love my very sweet pet name. :-)


  • #118
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    Only have brothers, so we mostly just call her "her", "she", and whatever other third party pronouns are applicable.

    It's incredible how much it annoys an awful lot of people.


  • #119
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I would kill my kids if they called me by my name i.e. Spanish.

    There is no respect anymore for Mam who pushed you out to be an obnoxious prick is there.

    Calling your parents by their names is obnoxious and disrespectful?

    No room for different families having different ways of relating, no? None?


  • #120
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Paz-CCFC wrote: »
    In Cork and Kerry Irish, the A definitely sounds like O when used in the middle of a word. "Cat" (the Irish one) sounds more like "cot", "bata" sounds like "botta" (they'd all have broad Ts, though it's difficult to convey its pronunciation in written form), "gafa" sounds like "goffa".

    I thought everyone pronounced these Irish words like this. :o How do people that speak other Irish dialects pronounce cat..?


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  • #121
    Lavinia
    Registered Users Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭Lavinia


    I just googled mom vs mum vs mam and >>> another (same) topic on boards come up from 5 years ago..


    Had no idea there are so many ''differences'' and ''versions'' and "dialects".. and that it is so "important"... for me it was all the same all these years :o


    Differences-Ma-Mum-Mom-Mam.jpg?resize=590%2C324


  • #122
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    I think I call her Mam/Mammy


  • #123
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    who cares?

    A name is just a name. A rose by any other name?

    I'm just grateful that she's still with me and that I'll get to give her a hug on Sunday and please God many Sundays and Mothers days to come and at the same time say a silent prayer for those when their parents have passed to the next world.

    I'm a very lucky person.


  • #124
    Ice Maiden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Ice Maiden


    "Mom" is sometimes a cross between mum and mam.


  • #125
    photochain
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭photochain


    Mam and my husband calls his mother ma


  • #126
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    Amma, the informal way of saying mother in Tamil.
    Also call my dad Appa, the Tamil for dad, even though he's Spanish.


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  • #127
    Ice Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ice Storm


    I don't understand why this gets people's backs up.

    Apparently I must be British or a protestant to call my mother "mum" even though I'm neither. Although I've never come across this attitude IRL; only on boards. Maybe people are silently judging me.

    Why do I call her mum? I don't know. It's what I've always called her even though most of my friends say mam. There was no conscious decision on my part. But mam would feel wrong because she's my mum. :)


  • #128
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Wibbs wrote: »
    If you or anyone else can show me any Irish person referring to their mother as "mom" before say 1990 you can colour me beyond shocked. I certainly never heard it before then and if you hear it as Gaelige it's more of an ahh sound than the American Ohh.

    I gotta back up the chap that was talking about it being a Cork and Kerry thing. I can't particularly speak for Cork, but my Kerry partner and his older siblings (he, at youngest, would be born mid-80s, and his elder siblings were born back into the late 60s) have always used Mom and considered it quite normal. His theory is the Mhaim aspect too, we were oddly enough talking about this very thing a couple of weeks ago.

    For myself, I use Mum, but I'm half-English. I noticed in school that all the kids with an English parent (which was generally the mother) used Mum, and the all-Irish ones used Mam and Mammy. I had never come across Mom in the south east bar in American TV.


  • #129
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Ice Storm wrote: »
    I don't understand why this gets people's backs up.

    Apparently I must be British or a protestant to call my mother "mum" even though I'm neither. Although I've never come across this attitude IRL; only on boards. Maybe people are silently judging me.

    Why do I call her mum? I don't know. It's what I've always called her even though most of my friends say mam. There was no conscious decision on my part. But mam would feel wrong because she's my mum. :)

    No idea why people take it so personally but in my circles most would say mum as well. The word 'mam' is completely alien to me...which apparently makes me a west brit, according to another thread when this came up.


  • #130
    Ice Maiden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Ice Maiden


    Both my parents called their mothers mam, I'm from a family of country folk - Irish and Catholic, and I call my mother mum. No idea why - been doing so since I was very young. It's a mostly middle-class/suburban thing in Ireland definitely, but not just protestant or English.


  • #131
    Hugo Stiglitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Hugo Stiglitz


    I call my mother "Mammy". I know people who say Mum. Younger people <5 seem to say Mommy. Doesn't bother me at all to be brutally honest.


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  • #132
    KingBrian2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,363 ✭✭✭KingBrian2


    Mam is what I call her.


  • #133
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Moo-Ma

    Pardon me boy, is that Chattanooga Choo-Choo!?
    Manny-Moo, is that you?


    When I'm talking to my mam it's 'mum' or 'mammy', but 'mam' has crept in when talking about her. Been in Dublin too long :pac:

    And if she's not listening I call her a diminutive of her first name. The head fairly snaps up then :D


  • #134
    Lavinia
    Registered Users Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭Lavinia


    http://i3.irishmirror.ie/whats-on/family-kids-news/article5065684.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Mothers-Day.jpg
    Happy Mother's Day - however we call them :)


  • #135
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I call her mam, my sister calls her mom, I think it's to do with what our peers were calling theirs too. We both would have called her mammy when we were small. We both went to the same local working class schools - although I went to the first educate together from senior infants so that would have been "posher" back then and I still called her mam.

    Bit mad how some people get so upset by what other people call their mothers.


  • #136
    Bulbous Salutation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Bulbous Salutation


    I leave Dublin every Friday afternoon and drive down home to the country with a huge bag of washing. The woman who washes, dries and irons these clothes is known to me as Mam.


  • #137
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    When I was a child I called her mummy/mammy but as I got into my teens I started calling her mum/mam instead.


  • #138
    thattequilagirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭thattequilagirl


    Mam or mom, or sometimes her give name. Mom was normal where I lived as a kid, Mam was normal where I lived as a teen. I usually only use her name if I'm
    slagging her.


  • #139
    Rabo Karabekian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭Rabo Karabekian


    Ice Storm wrote: »
    I don't understand why this gets people's backs up.

    Apparently I must be British or a protestant to call my mother "mum" even though I'm neither. Although I've never come across this attitude IRL; only on boards. Maybe people are silently judging me.

    Why do I call her mum? I don't know. It's what I've always called her even though most of my friends say mam. There was no conscious decision on my part. But mam would feel wrong because she's my mum. :)

    They exist IRL too, believe me. I really don't understand it either, but there are a couple I know who occasionally go on about people using 'mum' and make snide remarks about the type of people that use these terms (and you can see little references to it on their Facebook feed, in conversations between themselves :rolleyes:) I find it really weird to obsess over something so meaningless and also clueless as to how these terms catch on.


  • #140
    Gamer Bhoy 89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    I'm Scottish so naturally it's mum or maw. If she isn't listening to me I shout "Lorraine!"... She's listening now :P


  • #141
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »
    I'm Scottish so naturally it's mum or maw. If she isn't listening to me I shout "Lorraine!"... She's listening now :P

    Is Lorraine Kelly your mum?


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  • #142
    Hugo Stiglitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Hugo Stiglitz


    Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »
    I'm Scottish so naturally it's mum or maw. If she isn't listening to me I shout "Lorraine!"... She's listening now :P

    Maw sounds cool actually!


  • #143
    colossus-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    Mom.

    Mammy and mommy sound a bit childish to me.


  • #144
    Hugo Stiglitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Hugo Stiglitz


    colossus-x wrote: »
    Mom.

    Mammy and mommy sound a bit childish to me.

    I'm telling my Mammy on you!


  • #145
    Gamer Bhoy 89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    mansize wrote: »
    Is Lorraine Kelly your mum?

    I feel ashamed that I had to try and remind myself who that person was. Forgot she even existed!
    Hugo Stiglitz wrote: »
    Maw sounds cool actually!



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