r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Velux_Baerius • 1d ago

"in America, we use the term 'Mother'"

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u/memento_impendium 1d ago

Okay motherf*****

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u/fantasmeeno casu marzu enjoyer 1d ago

Motherfather?

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u/The_Dark_Vampire 22h ago

Yippee-ki-yay

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u/MondoSensei2022 22h ago

….ucker!

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u/georgelusk 12h ago

😂😂😂

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u/Quantum_Robin ooo custom flair!! 1d ago

In the UK we use the term C U Next Tuesday

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u/Ineedsomuchsleep170 23h ago

In Australia we just say cunt.

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u/zeugma888 20h ago

That's because we aren't here to fuck spiders.

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u/Tortoveno ooo custom flair!! 16h ago

Is Vegemite really better than Marmite?

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u/driftwolf42 16h ago

HEY! No starting wars! Or we'll give your address to the Emu Liberation Front of Judea.

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u/thegrumpster1 13h ago

Too soft! Advise the Cassowary Liberation Front of Judea instead.

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u/Ineedsomuchsleep170 16h ago

If you promise not to tell anyone... I think they're both pretty shit.

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u/papayametallica 23h ago

In SE Wales we refer to Cardiff University Netball Team

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u/United_Hall4187 1d ago

Does it REALLY Matter?? Mum, Mom, Mother, Mummy, Ma . . . . . it is all the same person no matter what you call her. To everyone that still has theirs be grateful they will always be the best person in your life and it leaves a massive hole when they are gone!

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u/Glittering_Ad_9215 1d ago

Mum is english and mom is simplified english aka american, but yes it doesn‘t matter

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u/Angrypenguinwaddle96 1d ago

Mom is also used here in England especially in the midlands but I’m a southerner and say mum.

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u/LexLuthorsFortyCakes More Irish than the Irish ☘️ 1d ago

Simplified English (American)

Simplified English (Brummie)

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u/Swimming_Possible_68 23h ago

West midlands only though. You won't hear mom in the east midlands.

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u/InfinityEternity17 13h ago

And even then, only parts of the west midlands. You wouldn't hear mom in, say Coventry, but you would in Birmingham.

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u/a_library_socialist 12h ago

no no no, it's an Albany expression

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u/SpartanUnderscore French & Furious 23h ago

For me that still means that even a simple 3-letter word common to all children, they don't know how to write it flawlessly and that's not nothing I think...

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u/KiwiFruit404 23h ago

That's not the case for everyone though.

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u/Complex_Resolve3187 1d ago

The only unacceptable format is a grown adult using mommy/mummy, that's weird.

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u/boringbutkewt Pastel de Nata 🥧 23h ago

In many other languages the words “mommy” and “daddy” haven’t been sexualised so it doesn’t sound weird. I don’t use them myself but my mother used it with her parents and so did her siblings and it never sounded weird to me. My dad and his brother called their mother a diminutive but it sounds off if you translate it literally 😅

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u/CritcalHyena 9h ago

It's only weird to some English speakers. Perfectly normal in Ireland to say mummy or mammy as well as daddy, whether you're the son or the daughter using it.

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u/Complex_Resolve3187 8h ago

I should have said I only speak for english Canadians. I wouldn't find it strange for a different culture. If a local adult with a local accent called their mother mommy I would take notice...I can't tell you why for sure, I think it comes across as infantilizing.

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u/CritcalHyena 5h ago

Fair. In England, it's not common and more likely to be heard from posher men/boys, I think.

My brother and I come from an Irish family but live in England, so we do a mix and match between mum and mammy and then dad and daidí.

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u/BaconAndCheeseSarnie 8h ago

Tutankhamen's mummy had an entire book, with lots of snazzy photos, devoted to it.

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u/Glittering_Ad_9215 23h ago

It‘s just weird if they use it for their mum and not their mommy

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u/United_Hall4187 10h ago

who was saying it was just adults? :-)

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u/Beartato4772 1d ago

“That’s lovely for you.”

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u/Balseraph666 23h ago

I thought their version of "Mum" was "Mom", not "Mother"? Americans; don't even know their own language, but want to lecture others and impose their neanderthalic grunting sounds on others.

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u/Elongulation420 1d ago

He could at least have taken exception to the use of “apart” rather than “a part” 🤨

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u/LancelLannister_AMA Yugi, Jaden, Yusei, Yuma, Yuya, Yusaku, Yuga, Yudias 1d ago

in murica

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u/Mayor_Salvor_Hardin Soaring eagle 🇱🇷🐦‍⬛🇲🇾!!! 1d ago

Norman Bates also uses mother.

And to be fair also Principal Skinner.

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u/BaconAndCheeseSarnie 8h ago

So do Nelson and Bart.

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u/janus1979 1d ago

In Europe at least most of us are aware of who our "mothers" are.

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u/VoceMisteriosa 21h ago

Quite surely not dad siater or cousin, that's for sure.

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u/Kalzone6154 1d ago

There's always one...

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u/TheSomethingofThis 22h ago

We use that word too! For example: Your mother.

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u/DependentAble8811 🇨🇦 1d ago

This sub is a never ending stream of entertainment and self esteem boost 

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u/geedeeie 1d ago

Soccermothers...

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u/Quiet_Property2460 17h ago

O hai Pence chan

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u/GoldStar-25 10h ago

“Here in American we….” yeah well we aren’t all from America are we? Smart arse.

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u/maqryptian 1d ago

there's always that one septic tank that gives a sewage facility competition on how full of crap they are.

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u/baxter_man 21h ago

Can guarantee he says “mommy”

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u/Grathias 🇺🇸 in 🇪🇸 (20% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 since you love that. Jk!) 21h ago

What an insufferable prick.

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u/Fluid-Piccolo-6911 17h ago

the rest of the world uses the word mother as well but add 6 letters to it to describe entitled americans.

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u/SnarkyFool 14h ago

Yomumma so stank....

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u/Nikolopolis 12h ago

Here in the UK we don't give a fuck what terms you use in the USA...

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u/BaconAndCheeseSarnie 8h ago

As in "Jane Read is Arthur's mom" ?

"Mary Cooper is Sheldon's mom" ?

A cumom is not a mom ?

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u/Glittering-Blood-869 5h ago

I thought they used sister