Poll: Mum or Mom?

[Roganwilson]

I say both about evenly, mostly because I don't talk the same way consistently. Not sure why.

 

[WakeTheDead1]

its mum, just the same as its *heading* not *headed* e.g. im heading to the store

and its pronounced aluminium not aluminum

also its colour not color

 

[Klepa]

As a filthy foregner, I'm gonna go with "Mamma".

Filthy foreigners unite!

I tend to say äiti.

 

[silver wolf009]

Mom, No real reason. I may watch to much BBC but i still retain some american dialect.

 

[Kirky]

Being English, naturally I say and spell it Mum.

 

[Archemetis]

I'm English, so for me it's Mum.

Or sometimes for fun I call her Madre... Not even sure what it means but it sounds enough like Mother to me...

 

[PureChaos]

i say, and spell it, with a u

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Mum. Revel in my English-ness!
Or mother if I'm being slightly sarcastic for whatever reason.
Mummy gets used as an advanced warning that I want her to do something for me. Although I frequently get annoyed at the various rahs who always refer to their parents as Mummy and Daddy. I guess I'm something of a hypocrite.

 

[Harlemura]

I say mum. General British thing.
I wish I'd been raised t say ma' and pa' though. Just seems more interesting.

 

[Pyotr Romanov]

I call her by her name...
But if I had to choose, I'd probably spell it "Mom".

 

[Tossth Esalad]

Well... I say "mor", but then again I'm Danish.

When i refer to her in English, I ussually go with "mom".

 

[^=ash=^]

For some reason, when I was really young, (maybe about five or six) I always said "Mother" and "Father".

Hehe I started doing that to annoy them, but it kinda stuck so I still do it

OT: When i say it I say mum.

 

[me.vicky]

American living in AUS here. I spell it Mom, pronounce it mum, say "mam" as an amalgamation of mum and ma'am when I'm in a hurry, and reserve the term "mother" for when I'm whining or being sarcastic.

Dad is dad, unless I'm trying to get his attention, in which case it is appropriate to turn it into a two syllable word with an "uh" after the last d. Dad-UH. If I'm calling for him I usually do the thing Crow does in MST3K where he says it like, "Dahd? Dahhhhhd?"

I call them by their given names when talking about them to other people, or when trying to get their attention in a loud room/large space.

EDIT: Also,

 

[FightThePower]

I'm English, so I say Mum. Mom just sounds weird to me.

 

[Jedamethis]

"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.

What he said, I think I want to call her Mummy because then I can do a 'British' accent.

I occasionally say Mama, but kind of like Muma. My brother does too.

 

[Estocavio]

Both - I subconsciously unintentionally alter between a slurry tired British accent and a peculiar American accent.

 

[jpoon]

Ma or mom. No mum for me, I'm American!!!

 

[ChicagoTed]

Mam or if I want to annoy her I just call her by name.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

Mom, as that is how I was taught to say it sense I was about three weeks old.

 

[Jark212]

I usually go "mom" or "mommy", "mum" just sounds kind of strange...