30 Dec
2012
30 Dec
'12
1:08 a.m.
On 30/12/12 09:29, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Not in my experience. Do you mind if I ask what country you are in?
As an Australian, we get a lot of British and American television, and the British
"mum" (sounds like "drum" or "dumb" or "rum") and
American "mom" (sounds like "Tom"
or "bomb" or "prom") is very distinct. My wife has spent half her life
travelling
backwards and forwards between England and the US, and she agrees that the two are
pronounced very differently.
For what it's worth, here in Australia and despite the influence of American
television and movies, we stick with the British "mum" or "mummy".
Oh, and there are also regional north English dialects that use "mam", as do
the Irish.
--
Steven
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.
He did get one. I was the OP and I replied.
I said what you said, but with the addition that I pointed out that because of
local accents, Mum and Mom are usually pronounced to sound almost exactly the
same.