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pulliptears

Azari wrote: »

Live and learn.

Sorry, MamaMoo!

Funny thing local dialect, I'm in Stoke and we don't use it here but down the road in West Brom it is used.
I believe Scotland uses Mom in some parts as well.

Be interesting to see where MamaMoo is from (And if she says the USA we all look daft :rotfl:)

Azari

pulliptears wrote: »

Funny thing local dialect, I'm in Stoke and we don't use it here but down the road in West Brom it is used.
I believe Scotland uses Mom in some parts as well.

Be interesting to see where MamaMoo is from (And if she says the USA we all look daft :rotfl:)

I know a lot of so called 'Americanisms' actually originate in various parts of the UK (or times - the fact that we call underpants by that name clearly indicates that we once called 'trousers' 'pants' as the Americans still do).

Having given it some thought (and tried saying it with a brummie accent), it's now quite clear why they would spell it 'mom', but it certainly doesn't sound the same as the American (parts of) pronunciation.

MamaMoo_2

I am indeed from Birmingham
Could never understand why people use mum as I always thought mom was short for mother, so figured the 'mo' bit made sense.
Especially as I always thought of a mummy as, well, a mummy (of the Egyptian variety)
It used to annoy me at secondary school when I used to get marked down on SPAG for using the word 'mom'. :P

pulliptears

MamaMoo wrote: »

I am indeed from Birmingham
Could never understand why people use mum as I always thought mom was short for mother, so figured the 'mo' bit made sense.
Especially as I always thought of a mummy as, well, a mummy (of the Egyptian variety)
It used to annoy me at secondary school when I used to get marked down on SPAG for using the word 'mom'. :P

Thank goodness for that :rotfl:

peachyprice

MamaMoo wrote: »

I am indeed from Birmingham
Could never understand why people use mum as I always thought mom was short for mother, so figured the 'mo' bit made sense.
Especially as I always thought of a mummy as, well, a mummy (of the Egyptian variety)
It used to annoy me at secondary school when I used to get marked down on SPAG for using the word 'mom'. :P

Out of interest, are all the cards in shops in Birmingham spelt 'Mom'?

PurplePow

peachyprice wrote: »

Out of interest, are all the cards in shops in Birmingham spelt 'Mom'?

In the North-East we say 'Mam' and we do get cards saying 'Mam'

MamaMoo_2

peachyprice wrote: »

Out of interest, are all the cards in shops in Birmingham spelt 'Mom'?

There are quite a lot of 'mom' cards, yes.

Azari

MamaMoo wrote: »

There are quite a lot of 'mom' cards, yes.

Down here they produce cards suitable for us soft Southern gits that use terms such as 'mother', 'mater', and 'dear ma-ma'.

(OK, I lied about the second two.)

Abbafan1972

MamaMoo wrote: »

There are quite a lot of 'mom' cards, yes.

I live in Birmingham (born in West Bromwich) and I can never find cards with "Mom" on them at all.

I never use Mum, Mam, Ma or anything like that. It's Mom for me.

Words I cannot stand are Pack up (packed lunch), stairwell (staircase, stairway), chillaxing (mixture of relaxing and chilling, not even a word).

MamaMoo_2

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

I live in Birmingham (born in West Bromwich) and I can never find cards with "Mom" on them at all.

I never use Mum, Mam, Ma or anything like that. It's Mom for me.

Words I cannot stand are Pack up (packed lunch), stairwell (staircase, stairway), chillaxing (mixture of relaxing and chilling, not even a word).

I usually card shop in the city centre, and have never had any trouble finding a mom card. Weird. I usually use Birthdays/Clintons/Asda.

I used to work in Dudley, and used to get wound up when 'her' was substituted for 'she'. (her's a right idiot, her is)
And of course 'Yam' instead of 'I am', and 'Yowm' instead of 'you are'.