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Do you say mum, mom, mam or ma

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  • #62
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Mom (it's a Kerry thing)


  • #63
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    TroutFisher wrote: »
    The move to english?

    Bearla as Gaeilge (fada on the e methinks)


  • #64
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    I'd say mom or mam, ie-what's for dinner mam
    and for my dad i'd just say dad or da. ie-where's me da


  • #65
    VinnyTGM
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭VinnyTGM


    For me its mam and dad.


  • #66
    chillywilly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    phasers wrote: »
    Since when is "Mam" the culchie version?

    "Mum" is for English people/posh wannabes

    I call her "mum" because that is what I was taught as a baby. You can't really say a baby wants to be an English/posh wannabe!


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  • #67
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    chillywilly wrote: »
    I call her "mum" because that is what I was taught as a baby. You can't really say a baby wants to be an English/posh wannabe!

    Yes that 'westbrit' argument is the kind of thing Ruairi O'Bradaigh and Republican Sinn Fein would trot out.

    Even 'normal' Sinn Fein are well past that sort of old guff.


  • #68
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    chillywilly wrote: »
    I call her "mum" because that is what I was taught as a baby. You can't really say a baby wants to be an English/posh wannabe!
    You can say their parents do.


  • #69
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Mum, the others sounds so bad to me.


  • #70
    Copper23
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Copper23


    If you are Irish it is Mam... Anglican slang for the word Mhaithair in Irish.

    Please don't tell me anyone in Ireland actually says Mum or Mom? That's just ridiculous. Too much Home and Away and the like!


  • #71
    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    More importantly. When refering to your parents do you say my mother/father or CORRECTLY. Me aulfella or the aulone?


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  • #72
    chillywilly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    phasers wrote: »
    You can say their parents do.

    No, you can't. What we call our parents does not make you posh or a "wannabe" englishman/woman, it's what we do that defines us ;)


  • #73
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    It irks me no end to hear people saying 'mom'. Only started hearing it in the past few years. like, what, do you think you're American or what? I used to say mam. that's normal, nevermind this 'culchie' shite.


  • #74
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    mam or dad, grown adults who call their parents mammy and daddy are just sad.

    or people who call them by their first names, wtf is that about?


  • #75
    grungepants
    Registered Users Posts: 318 ✭✭grungepants


    Badgermonkey wrote: »
    3 southside schoolgirls on Late Late Show young scientist slot last night.

    I was born n'raised in Blackrock/Glenageary but the accent they spoke with is utterly foreign to me.

    Add in their make up fetish and Orange County is a fairly apt description of them.


    Go back to school..


  • #76
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I've always said mam, never associated it with being a culchie thing. Most of my friends would say mam/ma. Mom or mum just sounds wrong.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #77
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    grungepants wrote: »
    Go back to school..

    Like to see me in a uniform eh?

    Cheeky :o


  • #78
    cooltown
    Registered Users Posts: 288 ✭✭cooltown


    Man and Tom!


  • #79
    George83
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭George83


    Mam & Da


  • #80
    GizAGoOfYerGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭GizAGoOfYerGee


    Mumsiemoo


  • #81
    Xivilai
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    Mumsie dearest


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  • #82
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Mater and Pater


  • #83
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    dooferoaks wrote: »
    Mater and Pater

    Urbe in Rus?


  • #84
    squeakyduck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭squeakyduck


    Depends where I am, my mood and topic of conversation.

    If I'm annoyed it's usually mum.
    If I want something its mammy
    Then I usually use the ma, or mam.

    Most of the time I call her BAJP, its all the initials of her name!


  • #85
    LambsEye
    Registered Users Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭LambsEye


    Badgermonkey wrote: »
    3 southside schoolgirls on Late Late Show young scientist slot last night.

    I was born n'raised in Blackrock/Glenageary but the accent they spoke with is utterly foreign to me.

    Add in their make up fetish and Orange County is a fairly apt description of them.

    A little off topic but re: the totally foreign accent, it has now permeated down to Limerick.

    My Mom (I suppose I say "mom,) and I were in TopShop where she very kindly purchased me as shirt.

    As we left the shop she goes: "What the hell was that young wan behind the counter saying? What kind of accent is that? Where is she from?" I went to school with the girl, Limerick through and through but she spoke with SOME desperate American accent boy.


  • #86
    Piriz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Piriz


    ok, people who say mum, mom are either too posh to the point its laughable or pretentious and want to be perceived as being 'well spoken' and 'well off'.
    do they call their dad 'dod'? as for the OP you can say mum or mom and call the southside the good side all you want but when it comes to the craic, dublin wit, proper banter and slaggin the northside is yer only man, in other words keep your poxy poshness, i meet your type all the time and you's are f*ckin boring!
    i say mam or dad when speaking to them...
    ma or da when refering to them with friends sometimes (if you think thats disgusting your too delicate for dublin and you should try to mix with people outside your small circle, but people will smell the judgement off ya and tell you to f*ck off probably and so it continues...)
    mammy is perfectly acceptable for children only.


  • #87
    Sarn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭Sarn


    Progenitor.

    When the mood strikes, Mom (over 30 years usage).


  • #88
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    jaffa20 wrote: »
    Mammy:o
    baz2009 wrote: »
    Ma most of the time and Mammy if I want something.

    At last some sense being spoken in AH.

    Its mammy.

    MAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY


  • #89
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    This "Mom is American" shit really pisses me off.

    I say Mom, because my Mom and Dad both call their mother's Mom, from the Irish "A Mhamaí" or "A Mham", which is pronounced with an O sound not an A. We're from an area close to the Gaeltacht near Dingle, Co. Kerry, and as I now live in the middle of the country where all I hear is "Mum" or "Ma" (shudder) I have actually asked all my Kerry friends and they all said they say "Mom". My grandmother is 89, all her sons are in their 50's/60's, some of them have barely seen tv let alone America, and they say Mom. My friend *from* the Gaeltacht says Mom whether she's speaking English or Irish.

    So feck this "Mom is American", it's as Irish as you can bloody get.


  • #90
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    super-rush wrote: »
    At last some sense being spoken in AH.

    Its mammy.

    MAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

    Effin' boggers.

    Its MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.


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  • #91
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Larianne wrote: »
    Effin' boggers.

    Its MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.

    No its mammy.

    End of.

    Thread closed.


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