Why Is Mum Spelt With U In The UK, But With O In The US?

[@NameExplain]

Off topic question: What's the best "Your mum" joke? Okay not that off topic.

[@d_wang9836]

Name Explain Yo mum so fat, she's the reason the ancients thought everything oribited the earth

[@couldyoubetender3480]

Yo mum so stupid....she yelled "beer beer beer" when she saw a box of root beer.

[@456asd654]

ur moms so poor she cant even pay attention (stolen joke)

[@joshiwoshi6955]

Yo momma so stupid she put a ruler next to her bed to see how long she slept

[@neanineto5516]

What about variations held among English speakers in Africa and Indian subcontinent?

[@scottmialltablet]

One of my daughters first words was "Dada". I was so in love with that until a few days later when we were out for a drive and she was calling the trees "Dada".

[@naseerahvj]

A Dude my oldest said dada a bunch even though his father has always been called baba and he never heard the dada variation

[@cureholly.]

A Dude OH MY GOD IM DYING XD

[@NightRainPanda]

LOL. When my little cousin was younger and I asked him to find papa (he's french), he just pointed to every man he could find (his real dad wasn't there). At first he would point to my dad, then he surprised us all by pointing at a neighbour who was doing work on his roof. We all laughed.

[@joerondinelli4110]

Daughter nature

[@owenoastler101]

Tree Hugger taken way too far

[@SwetPotato]

The funny thing is even in Chinese, we call mother 'mama' or 'ma', instead of the traditional name for it 'mu' 母or 'mu qin' 母亲. I thought it was a borrowed word from English. But after doing some research on Internet, it seems like 'mama' existed in the old Chinese literature...

[@MrRoccoMarchegiano]

That's very interesting thanks. I don't speak other languages so this might be a real ignorant question, but is there any chance of mistranslation or is it something that can only be translated to mama?

[@MagicalKid]

妈妈

[@TaiFerret]

@@MrRoccoMarchegiano I read in the dictionary that 媽媽 (mama) can also mean breast.

[@laobok]

@@TaiFerret I think that's 咪咪 (mimi).

[@an_impasse]

MrRoccoMarchegiano Etymology is very interesting for this reason and it could be any number of sole or multiple factors. ‘Mama’ and ‘papa’ is...actually quite universal, it’s what I call my parents who speak Indonesian natively. First things that come to mind are: a.) influence or borrowing from another language b.) arbitrary, just a mere coincidence and happens to be native anyway Note that it is not necessarily exclusive to these reasons, these are just the ones I can think of. It sounds rather extreme of you to ask if it’s a mistranslation...to answer you, I’m very sure it’s _not_ a mistranslation and more due to the former that I just mentioned. This is not just for Mandarin or Sinitic languages, but this seeming similarity in vocabulary across various other languages probably happens pretty often.

[@AbudBakri]

Lois! Lois! Lois! Lois! Lois! Lois! Mom! Mom! Mom! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mama! Mama! Mama! Ma! Ma! Ma! Ma! Mum! Mum! Mum! Mum! Mummy! Mummy! Mumma! Mumma! Mumma!

[@bloviatingmouse5114]

Dr.StickFigure WHAT!?

[@theSafetyCar]

Dr.StickFigure Hi😂😂😂😂😂

[@Volzotran]

stewie

[@asitas]

are you always on youtube

[@finleycastello6512]

I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE. WTF

[@LauchlinM.]

Just for your US friends, huh? It's cool, it's cool. We're used to being ignored by Ye Olde Mother Country up here in Canada. _sighs forlornly_

[@NameExplain]

Happy mother's day Canadian moms! I bet they're the friendliest moms.

[@AvenMcM]

Yup, it's the usual fate of our odd linguistic blend! ;) I'm typically Canadian... I say 'mum' but spell it 'mom'. Always the hybrid.

[@demarcomixon]

Be quiet 51st state.

[@MoonThuli]

Lauchlin MacPhee we don't ridicule you as much though

[@LauchlinM.]

dorgesh Fair enough to that, I suppose. Must be because we use most of the 'proper' sort of English. ;)

[@computethisinfo]

Are You My MUMMY?

[@NameExplain]

0.0

[@computethisinfo]

Jazzy Joe GO TO YOUR ROOM!

[@Luke-qr7pm]

Your average Brit & Whovian No, _but I can be your daddy_ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@computethisinfo]

My Name Is Luuke are you my mummy? mummy? muuummyy??

[@peterfox1380]

He needs an adult.

[@entwistlefromthewho]

Mam is also a common variant in the UK, particularly in Wales and Northern England. The Welsh word for 'mother' is actually 'mam'.

[@mariusssssss]

NANANANANA BATMAN

[@ChavvyCommunist]

I knew exactly what to expect. I wasn't disappointed.

[@charlottehook7387]

nananananananananananananananana BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@blakecrossman7689]

Best 1st word ever

[@zyaicob]

I was looking for this comment.

[@table2790]

Someone called me?

[@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX]

I heard "free trial" as "free child" and thought "why would they send him a child and how would that help him find his own family history".

[@resilienceofagypsy3998]

Gertrude Smeetheens this comment made me laugh far too much!

[@leiw3257]

Huh? "Mom" and "plum" don't rhyme in American English. We don't pronounce it like "mum," we pronounce it like "mahm"/"mawm." That's why it's not spelled with a U.

[@tboy6610]

not what he was trying to say, he was making an observation that 'mum' seemed to change to 'mom' in america due to local accents but 'plumb' didn't change to 'plomb' despite having very similar sounds.

[@alanfbrookes9771]

North America wasn't populated by humans until about 12,000 years ago.

[@sumisoli2406]

and that was just the native tribes

[@Khetamine]

*mum*

[@mme.veronica735]

@@tboy6610 "plum" is pronounced the same way in north America (generally) while "mom" is pronounced different from "mum" "mom" is pronounced "mawm" while "mum" is pronounced "muhm" but plum is always "pluhm

[@marystrawberry972]

This video doesn't actually answer the posed question- it explores the etymology but stops short of an actual answer.

[@KaloStoyanov]

Is it just me or you never answered why it is spelt differently?

[@SooSkii]

I was like ahhhhhhh in the north we say mam but you covered it and i quelled my rage :D

[@NameExplain]

Normally I let people rage but my love of Northern England (and my shame for being a dirty southerner) meant I couldn't not mention it.

[@SooSkii]

Name Explain haha :D although to some we are mining inbreeders

[@kiwiSTV]

Same, they say mam where I'm from and my Midlander friend says mom... I was getting ready for an ACTUALLY

[@jackccfc8351]

Joe Greaves All Welsh people say Mam aswell

[@me5969]

Depends, we say "ma" where I'm from, but my manc bird does say mam. Tbf though southerners are nuts, they call a chip barm a chip roll ffs so no point in picking that scab

[@DiRtYLaWs2007]

Some people in central England (Birmingham and some other parts of the midlands) use “mom” as well as “mum”.

[@Kleineganz]

The important woman in my life I called "Omi" (a variation of "Oma" which is one of the terms used in Germany for grandmother). She's the one who loved and raised me. Unfortunately my own biological mother wanted nothing to do with me and all I received from her was abuse. So, yeah I won't be thanking my mother for that. Thankfully, I had my Omi to take care of me!

[@skullface2694]

I miss my mum.... If your reading this and still have yours...go give her a hug....

[@highQualitycontent802]

I feel bad . :(

[@mevb]

I always loved my mom and therefore it was heartbreaking when she passed away in cancer 8 years ago. Though I miss my mom and wish that she would be still alive, the loss of her wasn't horrific when I lost my first girlfriend (who lived with me) as she died suddenly, unexpected and with no explaination and I loved her with all my heart and was going to propose to my love and planned having a family together, I even wanted to die to join her in death and life felt meaningless without my poor girlfriend. With mom having an illness that couldn't be cured as kimo theraphy wouldn't have helped and that she suffered so much during her illness, I was more accepting to let go of her even if that was something I didn't want to. I'm sure she would have been a great grandmother to my future kids (37 and still no kids, how depressing isn't that) as she was to my nieces although the time with them was short (my oldest was only 6 and the youngest were only 2 back then). Sorry for being so depressing but just can't help it.

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

And u lost yr gf to? OMG I’m so sorry for u I hope u feel better

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

I feel yr pain.. I am so sorry.

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

I’m sorry u lost yr mum.. I hope u feel better soon.

[@Commenter839]

I always call my mom "mother" when I'm actually talking, but when I'm typing, I'd say "mom".

[@leirawhitehart1236]

Personally, I call my mother “mamma,” but when I talk about her I say mom. It’s kinda weird I guess, but I think it might be a southern thing. Idk.

[@delsi26]

I seem to notice that speech on people from southern US

[@B727X]

Lol mines the opposite

[@MrEiliv]

Her in Norway, the most common name to call a mother is "mamma". When talking about a mother in general, the word "mor" is used, similar to English mother. "Mor" come from the word "moder" which is very close to English "mother". The same way of shortening the word has been used brother and father too, which is bror and far from broder and fader. The words moder, broder and father is not used so much, only in old writings or in the bible.

[@MarcHarder]

"Why do Americans & Canadians still spell plum with a U & not an O?" Because the vowel in mom is not the same as the vowel in plum, it's the same one as in bomb. If it was you would pronounce bum & bomb the same way.

[@ChavvyCommunist]

That was a bizarre mistake in an otherwise good video.

[@nickmonks9563]

This was just bizarre in general. I remember growing to like "plums" when I lived in the UK. I NEVER remember them being spelled with an "o".

[@MrShakey78]

You misunderstand his statement. In British English 'Mum' and 'plum' rhyme, while it doesn't rhyme with 'bomb', which rhymes with 'gone'. So his argument is that the American spelling and pronunciation of 'mum' changed to 'mom', but 'plum' didn't change to 'plomb', nor did its pronunciation change. And that is what he finds interesting. It's not a mistake :) Hope that makes sense!

[@reecerobin8413]

I'm American, I've never heard anyone pronounce plum like bomb.

[@acyutanandadas1326]

We do spell aplomb for upright

[@keemstarmorelikestupidstar8100]

Mom is wrong because mum is the new english way to spell it

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

Ok where’s the mum gang at?

[@electroskates2434]

Me

[@highQualitycontent802]

Yep uk 🇬🇧

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

@@highQualitycontent802 YAAASSSSS

[@orangesnowman7137]

Yeah

[@akumayoxiruma]

The answer to the video: After the declaration of independance of the United States, linguists soon realised that there is a significant American dialect which alters the British pronunciation. They did a big spelling reform which caused words to be written closer to their pronunciation (i.g.: 'mum' sounded more like a short o; 'pyjama → 'pajama'), words getting simplified (i.g.: 'learnt' → 'learned', 'aeroplane' → 'airplane', 'analyse' → 'analyze') and cutting off French roots and latinise words ('honour' → 'honor', 'dialogue' → 'dialog', 'centre' → 'center'). The main difference in spelling between American and British English is that American spelling tends to represent the pronunciation whereas British spelling gives clarifies the etymology of its words.

[@hbq76]

wow you really do look how you draw yourself

[@d_wang9836]

HOLY SHIT, YOUR PROFILE PIC IS PRETTY ACCURATE

[@jacquelineleiman250]

Is that a CGP Grey shirt?

[@feynstein1004]

Yes, yes it is.

[@onesnoffledshotgun]

I was looking for this comment

[@JamesSmith-rb5lv]

e-y-e-s eee-yess.

[@benw9949]

In American English, we do not pronounce mom and mommy and momma as mum or mummy. -- Americans say mom /mahm/ or /mawm/ and mommy just adds an /ee/, /mah-mee/ /maw-mee/. And yes, in American English, a "mammy" has racist connotations. -- We say, "Yes, ma'am," as /mam/ with a short A as in cat, and not as /mahm/ like the Brits, because again, that would be like saying, "Yes, Mom!" for your mother. :D -- However, most educated Americans do know the British words. -- This doesn't really explain why Americans prefer mom and mommy and British people prefer mum and mummy. I'm not sure that mum, as in mu's the word or mumble are related to the word for mommy / mummy. -- And over on the male parent side, Americans often call their fathers dad, daddy, but a lot of Americans call their fathers pop or poppa or papa instead, and mama gets pronounced /mah-mah/. Why there's the daddy versus poppa divide, and what that has to do with country of ancestry, I'm still not clear on.

[@batekush8135]

If ur from birmingham we say mom tho

[@Palestine4Ever169]

Isobel E Momas

[@thegreatwalrus6574]

In Canada Mum, and Mom are used. Mom is a more common spelling. But it's almost always said as Mum.

[@atic7910]

bread is pan in spanish, not EL pan, that would be THE bread

[@mariusbaltazarrozenberg-ho9367]

+Dante you mean a loaf of bread - una barra de pan - bochenek chleba in the language of my ancestors

[@eruyommo]

EL pan is THE bread, not A bread, that would be UN pan.

[@atic7910]

ups, yea i will correct that

[@enqrbit]

[No pan intended]

[@forsythbill1]

In Scotland, we say a pan loaf instead of a loaf of bread.

[@learnenglishwithjojo]

I'm finding this video at just the right time, as I was just speaking with someone from Birmingham (England, not Alabama) and they told me they say Mom and I was quite surprised because I thought all y'all brits said Mum

[@SouravBagchigoogleplus]

In India, Baba = Father (Common in Bengali) Kaka = Uncle (Common in Bengali) Mama = Maternal Uncle (Common in all North Indian Languages) Papa = Father (Common in Hindi) Caca = Uncle (Common in all North Indian Languages) And finally MAA What a scientific language!

[@peterwesson7324]

That's interesting. I can't quite grasp the difference in pronunciation between Kaka and Caca, can you explain that - I am English and I don't speak any Hindi so appreciate it may nit be possible

[@shayZero]

I've always wondered this. This channel is gold

[@SpaghettiBrainX]

I refer to my mum as "Big Cheese"

[@SpaghettiBrainX]

Autism Smarts - I'm English, so it's "mum" for me.

[@ukrainianamerican79years72]

Happy Rusev Day it’s mom

[@ukrainianamerican79years72]

Happy Rusev Day yes it is

[@ukrainianamerican79years72]

Happy Rusev Day yes

[@DMcElrathbey04]

To those who say it’s mom or mum it’s both actually just in the US we say “mom” while in the UK they say “mum”

[@kenstr321]

R.I.P. Mama, love you.

[@magicalholywatermelon7378]

"Mum" isn't just in the U.K. It's in Australia too.

[@thelux8539]

Yes, we know, it's also in South Africa and New Zealand

[@jansen5495]

He said that

[@noelleggett5368]

One (the dominant) theory: in the Irish (Gaelic) language, a short o (as in English ‘hot’) is unrounded, producing a sound not unlike the a shorter version of the a in ‘father’. As English gradually took over as the dominant language, this unrounded o eventually lengthened, sounding more like the a in ‘father’. Irish immigrants to North America brought this lengthened unrounded o with them. As the short o had become an unstable sound thanks to vowel shifting during the 16th to 19th centuries, the (lengthened) Irish short o became standard due to the effect of ‘accent levelling’ in North America. Up until the late 18th century, English spelling as not standardised, and people tended to spell words as the sounded. The original word, mam, still fitted the spelling and pronunciation in the North of England and in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. In the south of England, the close rounded vowel u had become open and unrounded, more like a short version of a in ‘father’. So, it was often spelled ‘mum’, and this spelling made it into Samuel Johnson’s English dictionary of 1775. Fifty years later, when Noah Webster created his dictionary of American English, he tried to include several spelling reforms, including the American spelling of ‘mom’, which reflects the American long unrounded open back vowel sound being represented as o. To this day, there is often confusion over the convergence in pronunciation of a long back a (especially before a silent r) in the South of England and a (lengthened) short (unrounded) o in North America... so that “heart” in Brighton sounds like “hot” in Boston.

[@Gorgando829]

Well we spell it mum in Australia

[@dokuyaro]

Nah I’m Australian and I assure you that it is spelt wnw

[@Ihaz2fishtanks]

Love this! Though...I don't really understand your "Plum" reference. I think it pronounced almost entirely the same in British English as in American English.

[@cameronharmer4424]

That doctor who episode fucked me up

[@AZWADER]

He really had to flex on us with the CGP shirt 😭

[@MichaelTheAwesome32]

Plum and mom don't rhyme in American English, that's why they're spelled differently

[@Khetamine]

Mum and plum do though that's why we disagree.

[@masonthegecko6990]

Spelt with a ‘U’ in Australia because Australia has the same grammar as UK

[@killingeveedits8228]

Cool 👍 u guys say it the right way

[@Dordoom]

Why is Hangug called Korea?

[@okaywhatevernevermind]

Dordoom Show because it rhymes with gonorrhea

[@zyaicob]

Rick David I'm sure they could come up with a better reason than that. Like it rhymes with diphtheria.

[@MattTheCommenter]

erm4gundr and also diarrhoea

[@tideghost]

Ignore the idiots above. It comes from the name of a Korean kingdom called "Goryeo" (高麗, 고려), pronounced like 'ko ryaw', which over time became "Korea" in English.

[@HopeRock425]

I just realized he was wearing a CGP Grey shirt in this video.

[@unagjac890]

WHAT ABOUT MAW!?

[@Phlebas]

Canadian here, and I spell the word "mum". But that's mostly because that has always been her stated preference. I also pronounce it "mum" rather than "mawm".

[@humzaanjum4457]

hello internet!

[@szymonfadzinski5466]

Tims of the world, unite!

[@Khetamine]

Have a nice day!

[@TheDarkRealmDiariesDarkauthor]

I've always wondered about this, thanks so much :)

[@neonmarkov6544]

Heey loved that Xidnaf reference, as much ss the CGP Grey t-shirt :)

[@derekwheeler4299]

I missed it, where was the xidnaf reference?

[@derekwheeler4299]

Never mind I found it. Also he should totally make a second channel for linguistic videos since it looks like Xidnaf is not coming back.

[@olivermorgan-thomas7004]

In Wales most people say Mam but I do know people that say Mum. In Welsh Language: Mam = Mother Mam-Gu = Grandmother (South Wales) Nain= Grandmother (North Wales)

[@azhrayharris8]

I call my mother momma, mommy, or mamma jamma.

[@sams3015]

I’m know I’m a year out writing this, however just came across this now: Anyway, not everyone in Ireland says Mam(my), in-fact in Ireland its often perceived as a class thing: Working Class people or Farmers typically associated with saying Mam, more middle class people say Mom and if you’re very posh or have Anglo-irish blood or live in South Dublin (the Kensington and Chelsea of Ireland) it’s Mummy. Although this not a hard and fast rule, some parents correct their children for sounding “too common” saying Mam or “too stuck up” say Mum or “too American” say mom. So what you call your mother can be a massive part of your identity.

[@warnbrobongsage4231]

because the US is bent

[@Belboz99]

Hell-bent

[@Belboz99]

Jamie Tetlow you need some basic history lessons. The UK didn't discover the USA, first Vikings and then later Christopher Columbus discovered the *Continent of North America*... Those are the Europeans btw, natives knew about this place for thousands of years already, took forever for Europeans to figure it out. Christopher Columbus was Portuguese, but the Portuguese nobility wouldn't fund his idea to sail across to China because it was a stupid idea. The Earth's circumference had been figured out thousands of years earlier by numerous Greek astronomers and philosophers, but Columbus decided to bet that if you interpreted some of those calculations differently the Earth would be 1/3 smaller than it is, and nobody believed him (and rightly so). Spain was piss-broke because it'd lost it's trade route through Asia and they were out of trees to make the ships needed to continue with trade routes around Africa. They'd just fought off the Moors, which had occupied their lands for hundreds of years. So they were more than willing to take a gamble, a longshot. Christopher Columbus never did figure out that he'd discovered a different continent. He died after several trips still believing he'd found a shortcut to India and Japan... Hence "Indians". Almost 200 years later after most European countries had colonies here, including Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, French, and yes British, did they decide to band together and form their own country, AKA the USA. They did so because the Brits levied taxes to pay for ongoing wars in Europe (Napoleon, et al), and the Brits didn't think they would mind being that the Brits were protecting most of them from other nations and the natives... They were quite surprised to find they did.

[@OnlyGrafting]

WBS better put that on yer memento

[@smugsenko]

With your reasoning, you're bent- there is no correct spelling or pronunciation for the word. Don't assume everyone is wrong because you believe you are right. Learn logic... and kindness of any kind... please. BTW I'm American if you haven't noticed, and I speak English, like you do too; don't say Americans speak American; that's not a language.

[@mecha7419]

We live in a diverse country.

[@MalikaBurievaAtabeg]

can you please do a video covering the topic of why countries such as Uzbekistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Cremia, and etc call their mother as "Aya, Ane, Ana" and where that dialect derives from? thank you!!

[@rijahun6721]

So in short, you don't know -_-

[@EvanPilb]

Its mum in Australia too

[@LARAUJO_0]

4:25 because saying "plom" would be weird

[@jeffcook3747]

I'm American but for many generations on my mum's side of the family, everyone except my brother had called their mum, Mum

[@kalebkelley2471]

1:50 xednaf

[@SiRpiElovEr]

“mum” MuThEr

[@starguy321]

There's English, which is spoken in Britain, and Gibberish, which is spoken in America

[@irrelevance3859]

resqwec There is Traditional English, which is spoken in Britain, and Simplified English, which is spoken in America

[@susancastefew7072]

Jp.Girl we just don't give fucks honestly. it's like our motto

[@lucasm4299]

resqwec I don't get how you get 22 likes for an ignorant stupid comment

[@digweedish]

All simple in America

[@lucasm4299]

Gary Rigby Irony. Your comment is simple and full of ignorance.

[@kittykatgaming8296]

I'm American and I call my mother "mum" or "momma". No idea why I picked that since I don't know anyone else growing up who used "mumma"

[@castlering]

Thank you for including us Brits who say 'mom' ☺️ I can't stand the u word....but each to their own. Black Country through and through.

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

Oh, there are Brits who do say 'mom'? And it's not an affectation?

[@WeyounVI]

i love this channel man

[@xkmi5996]

My Xidnaf sense is tingling...

[@itsonlybranden]

I say Mommy or Mom not Mum

[@andrews3545]

Child Bearer

[@germandawg15]

Mother and Father for me. Grandparents on Mother's side were Grandmother and Grandfather, and on Father's side, Grandma and Grandpa [surname]. Younger brother had a hard time with saying Father as a very young child, so he called him "Mother" as well, until our parents convinced him to say "Favi" and eventually transition to Father. I think we all said "Munner" for Mother when we were little, though.

[@frozenwolf26]

4:25 "Plum" and "Mom" don't rhyme, it's not that big of a mystery.

[@ashawn203]

they do for me?

[@frozenwolf26]

They don't for me, "Mom" is pronounced like mawm. (Mum and mom don't sound the same in my experience)

[@MattTheCommenter]

Ray Cheney moh m it sounds like when Americans say it

[@Khetamine]

Yeah mum and plum rhyme but plum and mom don't that's why some people disagree.

[@kylehazachode]

wait, we say plum like you brits say mum. I've never heard plom

[@AS-mw6pw]

In West Yorkshire (North England) most people say 'mam'.

[@thebantron1639]

Greg S63000 same. (Sunderland)

[@warn774]

GS 199 same!!!

[@Khetamine]

I live in West Yorkshire but I don't know any one who says mam

[@SkaterStimm]

Funny enough spelling was not very concrete back in the early days, and vowels were often interchanged based on the writer and their own accents. Early British accents were closer to American pronunciation and American accents have evolved but I would argue that British English has had a more extreme change in sound. Thus the original British sound probably sounded more like "mom" but as their accent evolved it changed more into "mum". Which is why we say "Ma'am" in American English and they pronounce it like mom in British English.

[@andro_king]

I see you like CGP Gray/Grey

[@rslitman]

I live in the U.S. One of the KZbin channels to which I subscribe is run by a Canadian. He uses "mum" for mother in both his video descriptions and his speech, so I figured that's the Canadian way of saying and spelling it.

[@StercoreOfficial]

I'm from the UK and I say mam.

[@warn774]

Stercore Pictures same!!!😂👏🏼

[@elsa2773]

Same

[@AlisonBryen]

We say Mom in the West Midlands dialect of the UK so that probably has something to do with how it transferred to the USA. I've NEVER said Mum in my life. Our dialect is very old and is closely linked to middle English. Our vowel sounds are derived from middle English. People who have broader accents turn the word SAND into SOND and MAN into MON...I'm thankfully not one of them! I'm impressed that you included that in your diagram !

[@xx__xx3076]

in Romanian mother=mamă we say: mamă (the original) mama mami etc.

[@xHugoxN7]

Basically the same more or less in Spanish.

[@ewqdsacxz765]

In Israel, "mami" (sounds like "mommy") is an affectionate term you can use even for strangers, of any gender.

[@LadyArachnea]

in French : maman ^^

[@anandadaquino3604]

ok, in portuguese we say: mãe but we are lazy af and we say: "mã" hahaha

[@marmalade627]

I'm from England, and I spell it with an 'A'.

[@suhairawsaj3638]

Mum ✔ Mom❌

[@suhairawsaj3638]

ReversedVision Mum = Correct Mom = Incorrect

[@suhairawsaj3638]

ReversedVision Mum is the correct spelling of the word. Mom is the incorrect spelling of the word.

[@suhairawsaj3638]

Autism Smarts oh, did you even go to school? Learn your grammar!

[@suhairawsaj3638]

Autism Smarts Mother is a different word.

[@VitaminX140]

Wrong ;)

[@nikkimae813]

Funny enough I call my my mum different things depending on the sentence I'm using. If I'm speaking to someone who doesn't personally know my mum, it's mum. If I'm speaking to someone who does know my mum it's mama, friends will refer to her as "Mama last name" (I'm not actually going to give my last name out). I will often use a sentence as "me (mi) mama" I will call her mum or mostly mana in person. And when speaking to my little brother or a child it's mummy. How your sentences change is interesting.

[@bepsi6204]

I call my mother mammy from the Irish mamaí

[@irascendedkitten7450]

MrBeppoHD I always called my grand mother mammy and my grandfather pappy.

[@bepsi6204]

Are you american by any chance?

[@evilbastardland]

Me too

[@evilbastardland]

Me too

[@freeboy9444]

MrBeppoHD I'm irish and I call my mother ma or mam

[@GearGrinder1133]

I spell it Mom and i'm in the UK

[@citizensnips2348]

I say mam, from the Welsh... also Mam

[@ChavvyCommunist]

Also quite a few different words in Scotland from what I've been told.

[@Arlecchino_Gatto]

"Are you my mummy?" Was that a nod at The Doctor? Dr Who is one of my two favorite tv shows. The other being a show broadcast here in the US called Grimm. I grew up on Dr Who. Starting way back around 1978.

[@hazelnutsheep7863]

It's mum, end of.

[@osamahaljobari7010]

HazelnutSheep it's mom

[@maxie1199]

Mom

[@mecha7419]

It's mom, end of.

[@mecha7419]

Jeff Kaplan It's mom ya dumb Brit. Stop trying to screw up the English language.

[@tannergossman6928]

Its mom.

In spanish is common to hear "amá" for mom, the intriguing thing is that "ama" (without the ´) means: female owner.

[@hughesbenjamin3158]

mother= mom not mum. Their is no "u" in mother. and that is probably how that came about.

[@BadgerCheese94]

Did you even watch the video?

[@nathanberridge7321]

B Hughes But that doesn't explain the pronunciation of mom that Americans use. Mum has the same vowel sound as mother. Mom has a vowel sound somewhere between maw and moth. As far as I can see, mum changes the spelling of mother to keep in line with its sound, whereas mom changes the sound to keep in line with the spelling.

[@braceyourselves_8881]

But if you say out mum or mom it sounds like "mum" and we Britons probably spelt it like that. But I don't actually know mOther being mum though, I think Shakespeare had something to do with it.

[@nathanberridge7321]

I've never heard mom pronounced the same way as mum. Besides, as said in the video, mum is a contraction of mummy which is a child's way of saying mother. Childish words are often spelled as they sound, so mummy and therefore mum is an acceptable spelling.

[@incandescent-light8257]

B Hughes Are you dense? If there were any logic in that, father would be 'faf', not dad. See the other responses. The 'o' in mother isn't emphasised.

[@aidenlosh9518]

We don't change the spelling up plum because it is still pronounced "plum" but "mum" and "mom" have different pronunciations and thus different spellings. Other words are a lot more interesting.

[@lisasheldon9571]

It's mom in the West Midlands

[@teeny1678]

I live in the UK, if someone called their mom mum then its just awkward tbh...

[@Ken19700]

The reason we don't spell plum with an O is because we don't pronounce it with an O sound. We do however pronounce mom with a short O sound.

[@phaisinphothaworn2826]

A called my mum "nan nan"

[@tforceraven]

I call my parents Mother and Father. It started out as a joke and it stuck 😂

[@Lana-bj2el]

tforceraven sameeeee I call my Mam mother and my dad father sarcastically all the time

[@beckykibb3075]

You know you're a real sci-fi geek when you immediately get the reference 'Are you my mummy?'! No explanations needed!

[@pockeychew2]

I actually do call my mum, 'mother'

[@acow1832]

the USA didn't wanted to get copyright strike by the UK so they change lots of words

[@britishnumismatists3910]

My mum used to beat my arse when I called her 'Mother' lol

[@FrostByte_AC]

This man was smart to prove that he indeed looks like his character avatar.