What word do you call your Mother?

[Flying Mathias]

I say Mum. Sounds much better than the alternatives, in my opinion.

 

[sophie]

Ewww. Mom is the proper term.

 

[wilycoyote]

You have to be a communist to use the term "mum". Clearly, the correct answer is "mom".

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I alternate between "Ma" and "Mom". I use whichever of these two I feel like saying at the time.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Yup, anyone who uses "mum" is a commie fascist pig.


"Mom" is the most acceptable term. I use the formal "Mother" if I want to piss my mom off (because she hates it for some reason).

 

[Zelig]

I don't speak to my parents in English.

 

[Quintillus]

"Mummy" seems the strangest option here to me. When I think of "mummy", I think of this type. I don't know why you'd want to call your mother the same thing you call an ancient preserved corpse.

 

[Flying Mathias]

I assure all of you, that I am a completely normal capitalist, and I am not a commie pig sent here to spy.

That would be crazy.

 

[Perfection]

Moderator

 

[Save_Ferris]

I call her a b*tch, although it's okay because I'm a dog.

 

[MjM]

Madre

 

[Skwink]

Ma, sometimes Mom.

 

[classical_hero]

Dead. But when she was alive, like any good person from the Commonwealth, I called her mum.

 

[Tycho Brahe]

Mor or moder
But she's dead, so I don't call her a lot.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

"Mummy" seems the strangest option here to me. When I think of "mummy", I think of this type. I don't know why you'd want to call your mother the same thing you call an ancient preserved corpse.

This reminds me of something that was unintentionally funny the day of Princess Diana's funeral. William and Harry called Diana "Mummy", and I'm sure nobody realized the awkwardness of what tribute they wanted to pay to her on that day.

It was very dignified of the boys and Prince Charles, Prince Philip, and Viscount Spencer (Diana's brother) to walk behind the carriage carrying her coffin. However, it wasn't quite so dignified to have a card set up on top of the coffin, printed with the word "Mummy".

I realize it's common in the UK for children to call their mothers "Mummy." But considering that there was an embalmed corpse in that coffin, I couldn't help giggling a tiny bit...


BTW, when my mother and I were on speaking terms, I called her "Mom." I don't call her anything now.

 

[Tycho Brahe]

"Mummy" seems the strangest option here to me. When I think of "mummy", I think of this type. I don't know why you'd want to call your mother the same thing you call an ancient preserved corpse.

I once saw a hilarious review of The Mummy Returns, in which all references to mummys where replaced with moomins

 

[ZeletDude]

"Mom" or "Mama" or.. "Mother" to annoy her, sometimes I refer to her as "Madre" because it sounds cool..

 

[Joecoolyo]

Mom or Mommy

Whichever rolls off the tongue at the moment.

 

[Tee Kay]

màe, or kunmàe if I'm feeling formal (in English, mum and mother respectively)

 

[Arwon]

"mom" is purely a North Americanism I think. Certainly never gets said, and sounds absurd, in our accent.