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I'm Scottish and I've always called my Mum by the way I say it....Mum. If I write her a card, I'll write Mum on the envelope.
I'm noticing lately people are using the spelling Mom. I always thought that was the American way of saying and spelling it but I see more and more people in this country using that spelling. A guy near me even got a Mom and Dad tattoo. Anyone else noticed this ? |
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"The rest of Europe use mom too which I didn't know until I started talking to a lot of people across Europe.
Maybe it's coming across to England too. "
I think that might be because of the predominance of teaching American English as a second language. |
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"The rest of Europe use mom too which I didn't know until I started talking to a lot of people across Europe.
Maybe it's coming across to England too.
I think that might be because of the predominance of teaching American English as a second language."
Definitley. I just had no idea until very recently. Didn't even consider it. |
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"I'm Scottish and I've always called my Mum by the way I say it....Mum. If I write her a card, I'll write Mum on the envelope.
I'm noticing lately people are using the spelling Mom. I always thought that was the American way of saying and spelling it but I see more and more people in this country using that spelling. A guy near me even got a Mom and Dad tattoo. Anyone else noticed this ?"
stick to mum youre British dont succumb to the American crap now go sit on your butt and write the card  |
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"The rest of Europe use mom too which I didn't know until I started talking to a lot of people across Europe.
Maybe it's coming across to England too.
I think that might be because of the predominance of teaching American English as a second language."
The other creeping one that's annoying me is saying "season" when referring to TV programmes, rather than "series"
Grrrrr!  |
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"I'm Scottish and I've always called my Mum by the way I say it....Mum. If I write her a card, I'll write Mum on the envelope.
I'm noticing lately people are using the spelling Mom. I always thought that was the American way of saying and spelling it but I see more and more people in this country using that spelling. A guy near me even got a Mom and Dad tattoo. Anyone else noticed this ?stick to mum youre British dont succumb to the American crap now go sit on your butt and write the card "
I've never succumbed to any American way of speaking. Like I said I write and say Mum |
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"In Scotland we still say "yer maw" 
Mrs TMN x
I'm fairly sure any time I've said "yer maw" it was meant as an insult 
That's the joke... "
Ah goddammit. It's too late to expect me to catch onto really obvious jokes.  |
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"I've noticed a few people on here saying mom, I just assumed they were American though.
It is a West Midlands thing..."
It's not whole of the West Midlands. I did some looking in to this when like the OP l started to see this, aftet I started to work in a certain part of the country for a while. Hearing and seeing the word mum spoken spelt incorrectly as "mom" grates me.
It turns out that though "mum" is the correct spelling and pronunciation in Standard Britsh English with the other form being American. There is one exception allowed in the Uk. The small conurbation known as the Black Country in the West Midlands. |
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