Poll: Mum or Mom?

[Julianking93]

"Mum" for me since I'm originally English.

I've had an odd wanting to call her "mummy" recently though.

No idea why. I've never even said that before in my life.

 

[TelHybrid]

Unless you add an "other" option, your poll basically just asks what region everyone resides in.

I'm English so I say mum.

 

[Blair Bennett]

Mother and Father. Apparently though, when I was younger, I referred to my mother as mum with Canadian inflection, as she hails from New Zealand, and my father by his first name.

 

[SimuLord]

"Yes, mother." Dripping with sarcasm.

(although I don't have much cause to address my mom, as we're no longer on speaking terms.)

 

[ARatherHandsomeGent]

Mum, Mom sound/looks weird to me and I'm British. It also looks kinda evil because I associate it with Mom from Futurama.

 

[Dango]

Mom, because I am a normal American.

 

[NSGrendel]

Mother, when I used to speak to her.

 

[Koschei]

I'm a bit miffed that there isn't a "both" option. I alternate between the two pretty frequently, but I picked "Mom" because I suppose I use that slightly more.

 

[lewism247]

I say mum, most people in the UK say it that way.

 

[lacktheknack]

I say whatever I feel like saying, but I spell it "Mom", because MMMOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM! is more effective than MMMMUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMM!

 

[Marter]

Both, but most of the time it's "Mother". Our relationship is mostly professional, so her name should also be professional.

 

[Beartrucci]

I say Mum and I spell it Mum. Although I remember this one time when I was eight years old that I wrote it as Mom for a while, then I snapped out of it and resumed with Mum.

 

[DeASplode]

I've never said one or the other. Always called my Step Mother, Mam.

 

[necromanzer52]

Well here in Ireland we generally say ma or mam.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Mum.

In Australia, we follow the shining example of the British Empire!

 

[Dancingman]

I try to be more proper and say mother, though being an American I tend towards saying mom, though I'll say mum every so often since I watch enough British media to hear it fairly often.

 

[Syphous]

My mother is mom and my father is sir.

 

[DMac the Knife]

Mum for sure. We live in the US, but never made the transition to mom.

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

"Mama". Serbian. Other parts of europe say it that way too I think.

Otherwise "mum" since I live in the uk.

 

[azukar]

You can really put your balls into 'Mom' ... sounds wrong...

MOOOOOOOOOOOOM

MUUUUUUUUUUUUM

Not the same....

Don't knock it 'til you've grown up with it! Englander and Australite babies do a very good job making that short /u/ sound do a lot of work.