It’s mum

I never respond to anything other than Mummy, Mama or Your Ladyship dahlings

My Grandmother was born in 1895 and she and my mother always signed off cards with “love from Mom”.

Perhaps this is a regional thing from the midlands (UK).

Does it matter?

My lovely son in law from the Black Country always says Mom.

Fairislecable is correct.

It's chiefly used in America but also found in England used by people in or from the West Midlands.

Writer and actor, Meera Syal, who was born in Wolverhampton, uses it in her book Anita and Me her semi-autobiographical novel, based on her childhood in the mining village of Essington in Staffordshire.

Geordieland girl here it’s ‘ mam’ or nithing for me.

I am from the Black Country, and always say Mum, my brother on the other hand says Mom!

It is whatever a person calls their mother. Not for you or me to decide.

I was born and bred in Wolverhampton, considerably before Meera Syal, and never ever used or wrote 'mom, or knew anyone who did. I winced when I saw it in her book.

My mother's family came from the West Midlands and female parents were always Mom. My father's parents were one from Cumbria and one from Tyneside and, in his family, the word used was Mam.
My own child always used my name - my preference. I can't understand why the OP or anyone else should be concerned about what other people call their mothers!

I like Mum.

Have always hated ‘Mam’, and not keen on ‘Mom’.

Sounds American.

But each to his/her own.

My MiL from Stourbridge was Mom.

I can't say I'm too bothered how people refer to their mum, there are regional differences. Having said that, I do think, there is an ever creeping Americanisation of words into the English version of English. My granddaughter describes a fringe as "bangs" I only learned recently what that means as to hair styling, it sounds utterly incongruous in the context of a piece of hair covering the forehead, which is summed up perfectly in my opinion by the word fringe. I suppose we should accept that language is ever changing and not set in stone

I went to Teacher Training college in Bradford, on teaching practice the children were taught to write Mom. Depends where you live!

My mother, born, bred and domiciled in the North of Scotland (as were we all), was always 'Mom' to us. She called her own mother (my Grannie) 'Ma'. None of my friends had a 'Mom'. I'm sure she must have told us why she chose to be called that, but time has erased any memory of her doing so. Knowing Mom, she probably did it to stand out from the crowd.

As an Essex girl translocated to the NE I found it quite amusing that my 'northern born' offspring read the word 'mum' as 'mam', while I, of course, stick to my southern pronunciation.

I do admit that 'mom' grates a bit, but it's hardly a major issue.

we called our mother, ma.
when i was little i presumed that her name was martha, and that ma was a short form.
we also had far, and he called her, mother.

Another northerner here... I'm mam.

Its mom here in Birmingham and always has been. I am mom and my mother was mom. I've never heard anyone say mum. It's mOther after all, not mUther.

^ It's mOther after all, not mUther.^

I'm afraid that those two sound exactly the same to me, Kate1949.

How would you pronounce 'other'?

It’s always been Mom in the West Midlands. My mother is from Tamworth originally and although my parents moved to Norfolk when they married, this was what l called her from the time l could talk. When I started school at nearly five, l almost immediately switched from Mommy to Mummy and pumps to plimsolls, thus fitting in with the other children. I still catch myself saying Mom from time to time. I can’t see anything wrong in it. In any case, although Americans might spell it Mom, it sounds like Marm to British ears.

Another anuther thing learned from GN.

My DM didn't like mum and we called her mummy or mother.
I'm known as mumbo occasionally shortened to mumb. 😀

Grammaretto

Another anuther thing learned from GN.

My DM didn't like mum and we called her mummy or mother.
I'm known as mumbo occasionally shortened to mumb. 😀

What's the difference between 'mum' and 'mumb'?

This is all fascinating..

Mazie We would say mom as in Tom, mum as in tum. Probably us Brummies would say utha for other