Do you say mum, mom, mam or ma

Ken. · 15-01-2011 6:25pm

was ma till i hit 20, from then on its mother or when drunk her christian name

W.Shakes-Beer · 15-01-2011 6:30pm

+1 with Makikomi.

PrincessLola · 15-01-2011 6:32pm

stupidusername wrote: »

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.

You're a snob if you get annoyed by the name someone calls their mother. if someone was raised to say 'mum' or mom its none of your fcking business. And everyone can STFU with this 'American', 'West Brit' crap.

RichieC · 15-01-2011 6:35pm

Ma and Da

Peadar_85 · 15-01-2011 6:35pm

Mam for me

Cheap Thrills! · 15-01-2011 6:35pm

I blame the parents or should that be pUrents! :P

HUNK · 15-01-2011 6:37pm

"Birth Giving Vessel"

Very formal but whatever

15-01-2011 6:38pm

I used to say Mum.

Wilson91 · 15-01-2011 6:38pm

I've always said "My ma" when talking about them, but for ages it was mammy when speaking to her face lol. Eventually that changed to mum as i got older... still call her ma at times when talking to her though, usually jokingly...dunno, it varies.

CitizenKeane · 15-01-2011 7:01pm

I haven't called my mother Mammy since I was a child (I call her Mam).
But both my mother and father (and each of their siblings) called their mothers "Mammy" up until the day they died in their 90s.
My parents were both well into their 50s at that stage.

af_thefragile · 15-01-2011 7:06pm

mumamomy??

Thomas828 · 15-01-2011 7:06pm

It's odd but I called my mum by her Christian name, mainly because dad did. But then after I turned six or seven and I started reading the Beano and the Dandy, I called her mum, mainly because everybody in those comics did.

TEMPLAR KNIGHT · 15-01-2011 7:08pm

I say mam.

Thats Limerick citaaaayyy!!

Badgermonkey · 15-01-2011 7:12pm

Jimmy Saville calls his Mum 'The Duchess'.

She's dead now but he kept all her clothes and has them dry cleaned once a year.

He remains unmarried.

HavingCrack · 15-01-2011 7:15pm

Mum or her name if I'm annoyed with her. She hates being called Mom or Mam and if you call her Maaaa :eek:...watch out.

Marcia Lustley · 15-01-2011 7:34pm

CitizenKeane wrote: »

I think in the Gaeltacht, the Irish for Mam sounds the same as Mom.
But that is NOT to be mistaken for Connemara people trying to pull off an OC accent.:D

you got that spot on! call my máthair mom but not in the american way,

Raic · 15-01-2011 7:48pm

When addressing her it's generally Mum, A Mham or A Mháithrín.

citizen_p · 15-01-2011 7:52pm

"ma" til I was 8 and and then I called her by her first name.

why,
because anytime id call her "MA" she wouldnt answer,
so it would be "ma, mam, MA, MAAAAAAAAA" with no response
where as when i would say her first name she would turn around instantly

Dravokivich · 15-01-2011 10:25pm

I refer to her as "Mother Dearest"

rovers2001 · 15-01-2011 10:30pm

Ma...

kelle · 15-01-2011 10:32pm

Used to be "Mum", sometimes "mother dearest" if I wanted something!

rorrissey · 15-01-2011 10:35pm

Mamaí agus dada...

pow wow · 15-01-2011 10:55pm

rorrissey wrote: »

Mamaí agus dada...

Mise freisin. Except she's a Brit and doesn't get it so I drop the i at the end and do it in a posh accent to make her feel less of a foreigner :pac:

Sunnyisland · 15-01-2011 10:56pm

tatabubbly · 15-01-2011 10:58pm

Mammy, i'm 22 and pretty sure that won't be changing..

When i want her attention though and she's waffling on, i'll call her mother to annoy her

Maddison · 15-01-2011 10:59pm

I say ma but I wont allow my son to call me It, I told him he could call me mum or my real name.

whiteonion · 15-01-2011 11:02pm

I say "mother".

carwash_2006 · 15-01-2011 11:03pm

Mum or sometimes if I'm talking about her Mother or her christian name.

Mom sounds very american to me and Ma just doesn't suit our family. Mammy is something I would associate with native Irish speakers, but I suppose it should be Mammai (dunno how to do a fada).

alwaysadub · 15-01-2011 11:17pm

Mam.
Mother when i am sarcastically agreeing with her!

Kerikosan · 15-01-2011 11:22pm

mam

SEPT 23 1989 · 15-01-2011 11:34pm

MAM

darragh16 · 15-01-2011 11:35pm

D'Aul Wan or D'Aul fella

Pace2008 · 15-01-2011 11:41pm

Ma or Mam. Northside scumbag, me.

I'd agree "Mum" sounds ridiculous coming out of somone from Dublin, but it seems standard down in Cork and fits in fine with the accent.

partyndbs wrote: »

i say mum and think calling them mam or ma is disgusting well country folk can get away with saying mam but dublin people it is horrible

Accent and choice of idioms are not the only areas in which one can let oneself down. Your written English, for example, is pretty ****ing horrible.

Fart · 15-01-2011 11:44pm

Sister.

offaly1 · 16-01-2011 12:00am

Maaaaa..... 28 and i dont think it will change!! thou maybe mam at times....

FoxT · 16-01-2011 12:00am

My parents have shuffled off this mortal coil - but I used to call them 'Ma' & 'Da'. It was affectionate, I liked it, and so did they. My children use a mix - 'Da', 'Dad', or 'Mum' (when I am dressed up....

) Again, I like it, so do they.

But this, the OP, is deadly....

i say mum and think calling them mam or ma is disgusting well country folk can get away with saying mam but dublin people it is horrible

WOW!! Clearly I am missing something here. I was born in Dublin but never lived there. Have I missed out on something important?
If you call your parents 'mam' or 'da' does that mean that you belong to some kind of neanderthal subspecies?

Just askin...

cassid · 16-01-2011 12:07am

mam,

i get called mammieeee by the youngest or ma ma or mammy by the 4 yr old with obviously speaks a bit of french

Abi · 18-01-2011 7:39pm

I'd call her mom, when Im giving out about her its 'my mother' >_>

She taught us to call her mom rather than mammy or ma etc, so I've always called her that.

Yakult · 18-01-2011 7:58pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8

jackiebaron · 18-01-2011 8:11pm

It varies on the circumstances. I too am a Nort'soider so I refer to the 'rents as me ma and me oul boy or oul lad when I am in conversation with others. Addressing them directly I say Mum or Dad (well the oul boy's passed away now so..).

When my mother has a strop on I condescendingly address her as mater, mother or by her first name:

"Don't get tetchy, Mater"
"My! My! What an outburst, Mother!"
"Cool your cannons, there, Katherine!"

And when I want to be a bad son ala Nick Cotton I say:

"Oi! Woman! What's for dinner? Did you get them beers like I ordered?"

(she usually looks up from the crossword and says "you know where the cooker is, child!").

Mummy is faaaackin gay!
Mom is equally pathetic.

Buceph · 18-01-2011 8:19pm

Mammy.

Although that stopped as I hit puberty and ran into my teens and I started calling my mother by her first name. She's still bitter about it, occasionally getting in a huff and demanding I call her Mammy again. Just sounds weird to my ears though.

jackie1974 · 18-01-2011 8:27pm

I call my mother mam and my kids called me mam can't imagine saying anything else. Although it can be a bit annoying when kids draw out the maaam, can feel like your living with a flock of sheep.

Little Acorn · 18-01-2011 8:49pm

I say Mum, and I am not British, posh, snobby, rich, or from a certain part of Dublin [infact am from the opposite side of the country], nor did I watch too much British television shows growing up or any of the other things that people have stated on this thread.
Nearly everyone I know says Mum.:)

Pandoras Twist · 29-01-2011 9:55pm

By her first name.

brummytom · 29-01-2011 9:57pm

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

'Mom' is American.

Every fucking time this topic comes up, this horseshit is trotted out.

'Mom' is a Birmingham word, that's been in usage here since before America was discovered. Please don't call it an American word. I might be a lot of things, but a wannabe-American isn't one of them

amdublin · 08-05-2011 2:05pm

What's wrong with mother/mam/mammy/ma like we used to always say??

Why are people starting this american sh1t and saying Mom??

I was in a thread in Legal Discussions yesterday: Mom
Personal Issues today: Mom

Very irritating.

Edit.
Mum is also okay. If you are posh.

admiralofthefleet · 08-05-2011 2:06pm

the hills/crap american shows on mtv are to blame

Ickle Magoo · 08-05-2011 2:07pm

Perhaps their mothers prefer that to the nasal drawl of Maaaaa! like nails scraping down a blackboard?

keane2097 · 08-05-2011 2:07pm

Get a hobby imo.

PrincessLola · 08-05-2011 2:08pm

I say MUM.

Problem, boards?

Do you say mum, mom, mam or ma

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