Do you say mum, mom, mam or ma

JayeL · 15-01-2011 1:38pm

Memmeh!

In fairness, I think there are parts of Cork where they genuinely say "Mum" and my missus from Killarney says "Mom".

Up-n-atom! · 15-01-2011 1:40pm

Oul wan...because I'm a well mannered young lady!

I actually use her first name for some reason, people are always shocked when they hear me say it - I don't call my dad by his name though, is weird...

orourkeda · 15-01-2011 1:43pm

southside woman

thebostoncrab · 15-01-2011 1:43pm

I call her by her first name and I get odd looks for it.

james098 · 15-01-2011 1:44pm

Mam unless your gay then its mummy :eek:

phasers · 15-01-2011 1:44pm

Since when is "Mam" the culchie version?

"Mum" is for English people/posh wannabes

Badgermonkey · 15-01-2011 2:19pm

phasers wrote: »

Since when is "Mam" the culchie version?

Possibly since the move to Bearla

Kells... · 15-01-2011 2:22pm

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Possibly since the move to Bearla

The move to english?

ismiseuisce · 15-01-2011 2:23pm

I said 'mum' until my family moved to Mayo from Dublin when I was about 7 and then I started saying 'mam' as that was what all my new friends in Mayo said.

I moved back to Dublin when I was 17 and since then I say 'mum' again... weird...

The Highwayman · 15-01-2011 2:24pm

mum and dad

Lia_lia · 15-01-2011 2:25pm

Mom (it's a Kerry thing)

Badgermonkey · 15-01-2011 2:27pm

TroutFisher wrote: »

The move to english?

Bearla as Gaeilge (fada on the e methinks)

TeddyTedson · 15-01-2011 2:28pm

I'd say mom or mam, ie-what's for dinner mam
and for my dad i'd just say dad or da. ie-where's me da

VinnyTGM · 15-01-2011 2:30pm

For me its mam and dad.

chillywilly · 15-01-2011 2:31pm

phasers wrote: »

Since when is "Mam" the culchie version?

"Mum" is for English people/posh wannabes

I call her "mum" because that is what I was taught as a baby. You can't really say a baby wants to be an English/posh wannabe!

Badgermonkey · 15-01-2011 2:37pm

chillywilly wrote: »

I call her "mum" because that is what I was taught as a baby. You can't really say a baby wants to be an English/posh wannabe!

Yes that 'westbrit' argument is the kind of thing Ruairi O'Bradaigh and Republican Sinn Fein would trot out.

Even 'normal' Sinn Fein are well past that sort of old guff.

phasers · 15-01-2011 2:37pm

chillywilly wrote: »

I call her "mum" because that is what I was taught as a baby. You can't really say a baby wants to be an English/posh wannabe!

You can say their parents do.

Tar.Aldarion · 15-01-2011 2:39pm

Mum, the others sounds so bad to me.

Copper23 · 15-01-2011 2:39pm

If you are Irish it is Mam... Anglican slang for the word Mhaithair in Irish.

Please don't tell me anyone in Ireland actually says Mum or Mom? That's just ridiculous. Too much Home and Away and the like!

Dotsie~tmp · 15-01-2011 2:39pm

More importantly. When refering to your parents do you say my mother/father or CORRECTLY. Me aulfella or the aulone?

chillywilly · 15-01-2011 2:43pm

phasers wrote: »

You can say their parents do.

No, you can't. What we call our parents does not make you posh or a "wannabe" englishman/woman, it's what we do that defines us

stupidusername · 15-01-2011 2:46pm

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.

krudler · 15-01-2011 2:53pm

mam or dad, grown adults who call their parents mammy and daddy are just sad.

or people who call them by their first names, wtf is that about?

grungepants · 15-01-2011 2:54pm

Badgermonkey wrote: »

3 southside schoolgirls on Late Late Show young scientist slot last night.

I was born n'raised in Blackrock/Glenageary but the accent they spoke with is utterly foreign to me.

Add in their make up fetish and Orange County is a fairly apt description of them.

Go back to school..

GLaDOS · 15-01-2011 2:56pm

I've always said mam, never associated it with being a culchie thing. Most of my friends would say mam/ma. Mom or mum just sounds wrong.

Badgermonkey · 15-01-2011 2:57pm

grungepants wrote: »

Go back to school..

Like to see me in a uniform eh?

Cheeky

cooltown · 15-01-2011 2:57pm

Man and Tom!

George83 · 15-01-2011 3:01pm

Mam & Da

GizAGoOfYerGee · 15-01-2011 3:01pm

Mumsiemoo

Xivilai · 15-01-2011 3:03pm

Mumsie dearest

Dozen Wicked Words · 15-01-2011 3:05pm

Mater and Pater

Badgermonkey · 15-01-2011 3:08pm

dooferoaks wrote: »

Mater and Pater

Urbe in Rus?

squeakyduck · 15-01-2011 3:11pm

Depends where I am, my mood and topic of conversation.

If I'm annoyed it's usually mum.
If I want something its mammy
Then I usually use the ma, or mam.

Most of the time I call her BAJP, its all the initials of her name!

LambsEye · 15-01-2011 3:12pm

Badgermonkey wrote: »

3 southside schoolgirls on Late Late Show young scientist slot last night.

I was born n'raised in Blackrock/Glenageary but the accent they spoke with is utterly foreign to me.

Add in their make up fetish and Orange County is a fairly apt description of them.

A little off topic but re: the totally foreign accent, it has now permeated down to Limerick.

My Mom (I suppose I say "mom,) and I were in TopShop where she very kindly purchased me as shirt.

As we left the shop she goes: "What the hell was that young wan behind the counter saying? What kind of accent is that? Where is she from?" I went to school with the girl, Limerick through and through but she spoke with SOME desperate American accent boy.

Piriz · 15-01-2011 3:20pm

ok, people who say mum, mom are either too posh to the point its laughable or pretentious and want to be perceived as being 'well spoken' and 'well off'.
do they call their dad 'dod'? as for the OP you can say mum or mom and call the southside the good side all you want but when it comes to the craic, dublin wit, proper banter and slaggin the northside is yer only man, in other words keep your poxy poshness, i meet your type all the time and you's are f*ckin boring!
i say mam or dad when speaking to them...
ma or da when refering to them with friends sometimes (if you think thats disgusting your too delicate for dublin and you should try to mix with people outside your small circle, but people will smell the judgement off ya and tell you to f*ck off probably and so it continues...)
mammy is perfectly acceptable for children only.

Sarn · 15-01-2011 3:21pm

Progenitor.

When the mood strikes, Mom (over 30 years usage).

Super-Rush · 15-01-2011 3:32pm

jaffa20 wrote: »

Mammy:o

baz2009 wrote: »

Ma most of the time and Mammy if I want something.

At last some sense being spoken in AH.

Its mammy.

MAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Acoshla · 15-01-2011 3:37pm

This "Mom is American" shit really pisses me off.

I say Mom, because my Mom and Dad both call their mother's Mom, from the Irish "A Mhamaí" or "A Mham", which is pronounced with an O sound not an A. We're from an area close to the Gaeltacht near Dingle, Co. Kerry, and as I now live in the middle of the country where all I hear is "Mum" or "Ma" (shudder) I have actually asked all my Kerry friends and they all said they say "Mom". My grandmother is 89, all her sons are in their 50's/60's, some of them have barely seen tv let alone America, and they say Mom. My friend *from* the Gaeltacht says Mom whether she's speaking English or Irish.

So feck this "Mom is American", it's as Irish as you can bloody get.

Larianne · 15-01-2011 3:38pm

super-rush wrote: »

At last some sense being spoken in AH.

Its mammy.

MAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Effin' boggers.

Its MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.

Super-Rush · 15-01-2011 3:43pm

Larianne wrote: »

Effin' boggers.

Its MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.

No its mammy.

End of.

Thread closed.

Fight_Night · 15-01-2011 3:49pm

Piriz wrote: »

ok, people who say mum, mom are either too posh to the point its laughable or pretentious and want to be perceived as being 'well spoken' and 'well off'.
do they call their dad 'dod'? as for the OP you can say mum or mom and call the southside the good side all you want but when it comes to the craic, dublin wit, proper banter and slaggin the northside is yer only man, in other words keep your poxy poshness, i meet your type all the time and you's are f*ckin boring!
i say mam or dad when speaking to them...
ma or da when refering to them with friends sometimes (if you think thats disgusting your too delicate for dublin and you should try to mix with people outside your small circle, but people will smell the judgement off ya and tell you to f*ck off probably and so it continues...)
mammy is perfectly acceptable for children only.

jaysus dry your eyes man I'm sure he meant it in a tongue in cheek kind of way.

13spanner · 15-01-2011 3:52pm

Mam 24-7

McGarnagle92 · 15-01-2011 3:53pm

I was raised calling them by their first names.

Iwannahurl · 15-01-2011 4:05pm

Can you be banned on AH for saying "your mummy"?

Larianne · 15-01-2011 4:06pm

super-rush wrote: »

No its mammy.

End of.

Thread closed.

That just sounds incredible creepy coming from someone older than 9 years of age.

Super-Rush · 15-01-2011 4:07pm

Larianne wrote: »

That just sounds incredible creepy coming from someone older than 9 years of age.

Theres nothing creepy about loving your mammy.

RussellTuring · 15-01-2011 4:23pm

From South Dublin but definitely not the posh part. I called her "ma" as a kid but for some reason started calling her "mam" about the same time I realised I wasn't destined for a life of crime like most of my classmates. I don't think there's anything wrong with "ma"; to paraphrase those MTV fools, it's a Dublin thing. The Irish "mom" is also slightly shorter than the American pronunciation as far as I can tell. "Mum" is defintely a West Brit thing, though.