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⌈ Secret Post #5283 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't "mom" specific to the West Midlands, though? Not "whole regions"?

[(Anonymous)]

Anon that the AYRT was RT (lol)

Yep it is, there's a few spots where it is used, but it's very far from common. More to the point, it would be a notable exception in the source material if a British character was from the Midlands and used it. That's the kind of thing you'd already know about going in, and it wouldn't just be a really lazy error on the part of an author.

Midlands anon

[(Anonymous)]

It is pretty much Midlands based, but the point is, if an author from the Midlands was writing a British character, they may or may not notice they were, uh, "Americanising" a British character.

It won't jar them hearing an English person using mom instead of mum.

And also to point out that mom = US and mum = UK isn't necessarily correct.

All Brits might not use the correct "mam" for a Liverpudlian character or (not British, but) a Dublin born character who might use the same, or 'mammy'.

I'm lucky, my fandom is America-based, so I don't get tripped up by it (although grown-ass men calling their father "daddy" is a bit weird), but the West Midlands and surrounding areas are pretty big.

Re: Midlands anon

[(Anonymous)]

I'm also from the Midlands, and I honestly didn't know until recently that Mom was a Midlands thing. I just assumed that Mom and Mum were interchangeable and a matter of preference.

Re: Midlands anon

[(Anonymous)]

Even then it's still not always standard - my scouse friend only ever refers to his mother as mum (not mam). Then again, he doesn't have a particularly strong accent either.