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Not if you're from the Birmingham area and much of the Midlands, apparently.
I am told this is how it is pronounced and spelled - and has been for a very long time. ![]() |
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I just automatically turn off the box or stuff a tape in to record if I am half way through something when someone calls over.
Are you from the 1980s?
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The ever increasing use of the word "mom" over "mum" by british people.
It's mum! I do wonder when our A&E departments will be renamed ER's.. ![]() Re the Mom instead of Mum thing, I was so annoyed by this I started a thread on it, and was surprised to find that Mom has always been used in the West midlands, as Moany Liza says.
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Re the Mom instead of Mum thing, I was so annoyed by this I started a thread on it, and was surprised to find that Mom has always been used in the West midlands, as Moany Liza says. ![]() |
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Not if you're from the Birmingham area and much of the Midlands, apparently.
I am told this is how it is pronounced and spelled - and has been for a very long time. ![]() |
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I have a friend from the Midlands and she always says Mom (and writes it too)
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.............and folk from the Outer Hebrides (Lewis and Harris) say Mam, with an 'A'.
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shower heads which are fixed to the wall
![]() How on earth do people rinse themselves properly or clean the shower without a handheld one ? |
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.............and folk from the Outer Hebrides (Lewis and Harris) say Mam, with an 'A'.
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as do those in the north east and parts of mainland scotland!
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I just automatically turn off the box or stuff a tape in to record if I am half way through something when someone calls over.
Do you still have analogue radio tuners as well? |
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Toilet paper that is too thin
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Tape? What witchcraft is this?
Do you still have analogue radio tuners as well? |
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I'm from the West Midlands originally with friends & relatives still there and no-one I know pronounces or spells it that way.
Looks, from the responses on this, like there are some other Midlanders who do this but I accept that it may not be everyone. I am from Edinburgh and there are a lot of expressions and ways of saying things which are commonly used in Edinburgh - but not necessarily by everyone. I was merely putting across the point that using the word "Mom" is not necessarily an influence from the US, but that it is found here too.
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I don't know whether this can be classed as 'trivial' because I can see how it could potentially be quite damaging, but.....
Parents who try to live their unfulfilled dreams through their children. This takes various forms. If I walk through the local park on a Saturday morning, I see fathers shouting at their children while playing football, acting as though they're in any way qualified to give managerial/coaching tips. Just let them enjoy the game and develop at their own pace, for crying out loud! I was a 'victim' of the middle class equivalent. If my mother is honest with herself, if she could have her time again, she'd have tried harder to pursue a career as a classical musician. She had piano lessons that had to stop at the age of about 14 for certain reasons. Then, when I was about eight, she insisted that I learnt the trumpet, and that it would do me good. It was fun to begin with, one lesson per week at school, 10 minutes' practice per night, county brass band on Saturday mornings. When I began to make progress, she started paying for me to have private tuition every week, as well as Wednesday night band and secondary school band. Frankly, I began to hate it. Some of the teachers were bullies, I didn't like some of the children it brought me into contact with and there was a real snobbery amongst the parents. Practising for an hour and a half per night (minimum) was a real chore when I'd just had a day at school, which also involved a two hours per night homework policy. I pleaded with my mother to at the very least let me cut back on the commitments, and certainly to stop seeing the one obnoxious teacher, but she was having none of it. She saw it as her job to 'push' me. My hobby was ruined. Following a period of illness at the age of 12, coincidentally around the time my parents separated, I cut back to school brass band only, and stopped lessons completely. Within a couple of years, I'd stopped altogether. I see this sort of thing going on in various other contexts as well, especially among the middle classes and their children. There's a very big difference between encouraging and supporting your children, and the sort of 'helicopter parenting' you see with parents trying to live out their dreams through their children. |
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Idiotic parents who decide to raise a child as the opposite sex because (for example) their 6 year old boy likes to wear dresses or their 6 year old girl says she wishes she was a boy.
FFS let them grow up a bit first you morons. What next, raise children as dogs if they make a barking noises? I did once catch a documentary about the subject of raising children as the opposite sex, and it was just full of shouty pushy parents enjoying the limelight. It's practicality child abuse. |
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People who can't tell the difference between fact and opinion.
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Hideous-looking cut-out bikinis and swimsuits...
They make me want to vomit. |
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The constant "what happens when the Queen dies" threads. Given there is a new one at least once a month I'm pretty sure the subject has been exhausted by now.
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Hideous-looking cut-out bikinis and swimsuits...
They make me want to vomit. |
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the neighbour at the bottom of our lane.
one lane two houses. them at the bottom and us at the top. take your bleedin' wheelie bins in.....week in week out they put them out on a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning for Wednesday collection and more times than not they are still clogging up the drive on a Saturday meaning i spend half the week having to squeeze past them. You have about 2 acres, i'm sure you can fit them in ! better still get your teenage son to do it, he's about 15 yrs old and about 17 stone......the exercise will do him good. |
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Toilet paper that is too thin
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All I want to do is lay in bed and watch Love actually whilst eating chocolate cake. Great plan except I can't find the film anywhere! Even signed up to amazon prime thanks to google's lies (it's not on there) it's not on Netflix either. I can find good copies elsewhere but they don't have the subtitles needed to enjoy the film at certain parts. I don't want to pay £5 for it but it could be my last resort.
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All I want to do is lay in bed and watch Love actually whilst eating chocolate cake. Great plan except I can't find the film anywhere! Even signed up to amazon prime thanks to google's lies (it's not on there) it's not on Netflix either. I can find good copies elsewhere but they don't have the subtitles needed to enjoy the film at certain parts. I don't want to pay £5 for it but it could be my last resort.
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Putting new batteries in the wrong way, them when taking them out, getting that nails on blackboard thing as the battery nipple top comes into contact with the springy bit.
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