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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Tony
On Saturday 29 December 2012 22:04:27 Tony Rein 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.
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
On 30/12/12 09:29, Lisi Reisz wrote:
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.
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.
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.
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