29 Dec
2012
29 Dec
'12
11:35 p.m.
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:04:27 -0500 Tony Rein trein@cinci.rr.com wrote:
By the way, is it Mom or Mum? English is not my primary language... Je parle en francais, mais je vis au Canada :)
Merry Christmas! -Alexandre
Bonjour Alexandre!
I didn't see that you ever got an answer to the above question. The answer is that it's both. "Mom" is American and "Mum" is British. I don't know what they use in English Canada.
It's normally spelled "Mom", but since Canadian English freely borrows "standard" spellings from both the States and Great Britain (we use -our, but also -ize, for example), it's a perfectly reasonable question. Pronounciation follows the American model, but in this case, as Lisi says, there's very little difference anyway.