29 Dec
2012
29 Dec
'12
10:04 p.m.
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.
Bonne année et bonne santé de Cincinnati!
Tony
29 Dec
29 Dec
10:29 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] English language spelling question
On Saturday 29 December 2012 22:04:27 Tony Rein wrote:
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.
Lisi
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. 
30 Dec
30 Dec
1:08 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] English language spelling question
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. 
29 Dec
29 Dec
11:35 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] English language spelling question
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:04:27 -0500
Tony Rein <trein(a)cinci.rr.com> wrote:
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.
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.
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