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What do you call your mother?

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    #122
    mansize
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    I think I call her Mam/Mammy


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    #123
    anewme
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    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.


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    #124
    Ice Maiden
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    "Mom" is sometimes a cross between mum and mam.


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    #125
    photochain
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    Mam and my husband calls his mother ma


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    #126
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    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
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    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. :)


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    #128
    Samaris
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    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.


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    #129
    TerrorFirmer
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    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.


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    #130
    Ice Maiden
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    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.


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    #131
    Hugo Stiglitz
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    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
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    Mam is what I call her.


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    #133
    Vojera
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    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


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    #134
    Lavinia
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    http://i3.irishmirror.ie/whats-on/family-kids-news/article5065684.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Mothers-Day.jpg
    Happy Mother's Day - however we call them :)


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    #135
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #136
    Bulbous Salutation
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    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.


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    #137
    failinis
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    When I was a child I called her mummy/mammy but as I got into my teens I started calling her mum/mam instead.


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    #138
    thattequilagirl
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    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.


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    #139
    Rabo Karabekian
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    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.


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    #140
    Gamer Bhoy 89
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    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


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    #141
    mansize
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    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
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    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!


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    #143
    colossus-x
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    Mom.

    Mammy and mommy sound a bit childish to me.


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    #144
    Hugo Stiglitz
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    colossus-x wrote: »
    Mom.

    Mammy and mommy sound a bit childish to me.

    I'm telling my Mammy on you!


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    #145
    Gamer Bhoy 89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,613 ✭✭✭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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