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What do/did you call your mother?

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absent Fri 18-Jan-13 16:09:05

Someone on the Room 101 thread voted for adults who call their mothers Mummy. I have to confess I quite often called mine Mummy, but also Ma, Mama and La Madre as well as the good old popular Mum. I think she rather enjoyed the variety.

Ana Sat 19-Jan-13 19:25:50

matson, I know people who call their mothers 'mam' too - but they don't seem to sell cards with that on...hmm

vampirequeen Sun 20-Jan-13 10:08:08

I call her mam when I'm speaking to her but memam when I'm speaking about her.

Around here me and my are sometimes interchangeable. For example:

"Who's coat is this?"......."It's my coat."

"Wait, while I put me coat on."

dorsetpennt Sun 20-Jan-13 10:15:54

Mummy for years, like she called hers Mummy until the day she died - my mother not my grandmother who lived a further 10 years after my mother died. Then a work colleague said it sounded affected and middle class - it made me feel so sensitive about it I stopped.
Mine call me Mum, for some reason I was called Mimsel for a while during their teens. My DGDs called their mother MumMum.

Bags Sun 20-Jan-13 10:22:34

Mummy till I was about twelve, then mum. My kids call me by my first name. GS calls DD Mama.

matson Sun 20-Jan-13 10:32:27

Ana, i will have to look at cards in the shop now! i,m trying to remember if "mam" cards were around when my mam was still alive. i wonder why they dont make them?

soop Sun 20-Jan-13 12:29:51

dorset I have never felt that addressing my late parents as Mummy and Daddy was anything but normal. Whenever all the family get together, we continue to do so. As for middle class...I'm not sure that I know the meaning of the term. confused