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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Dude OH MY GOD IM DYING XD

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.

Daughter nature

Tree Hugger taken way too far

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Jazzy Joe GO TO YOUR ROOM!

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

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

He needs an adult.

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?

妈妈

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

@@TaiFerret I think that's 咪咪 (mimi).

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.

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

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.

Be quiet 51st state.

Lauchlin MacPhee we don't ridicule you as much though

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

Dr.StickFigure WHAT!?

Dr.StickFigure Hi😂😂😂😂😂

stewie

are you always on youtube

I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE. WTF

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

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

Best 1st word ever

I was looking for this comment.

Someone called me?

Gertrude Smeetheens this comment made me laugh far too much!

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.

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

and that was just the native tribes

*mum*

@@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

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.

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

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

Joe Greaves All Welsh people say Mam aswell

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

That was a bizarre mistake in an otherwise good video.

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".

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!

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

We do spell aplomb for upright

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

I feel yr pain.. I am so sorry.

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

I seem to notice that speech on people from southern US

Lol mines the opposite

Yes, yes it is.

I was looking for this comment

e-y-e-s eee-yess.

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

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

ups, yea i will correct that

[No pan intended]

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

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

He said that

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

Happy Rusev Day it’s mom

Happy Rusev Day yes it is

Happy Rusev Day yes

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”

I missed it, where was the xidnaf reference?

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.

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

+Beatriz Reyes Woo!

Dordoom Show because it rhymes with gonorrhea

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

erm4gundr and also diarrhoea

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.

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

Are you american by any chance?

Me too

Me too

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

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

Lucas Snowball_Cathug I was just about to say that LOL :v

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

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

Isobel E Momas

Me

Yep uk 🇬🇧

@@highQualitycontent802 YAAASSSSS

Yeah

Tims of the world, unite!

Have a nice day!

Greg S63000 same. (Sunderland)

GS 199 same!!!

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

Stercore Pictures same!!!😂👏🏼

Same

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

Ray Cheney moh m it sounds like when Americans say it

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

Basically the same more or less in Spanish.

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

in French : maman ^^

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

Cool 👍 u guys say it the right way

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

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

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

All simple in America

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

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

Hell-bent

Warnbro bong sage No, British people who don't make sense.

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.

Jamie Tetlow I'm offended, I am so used to American English that your version doesn't even make sense.

WBS better put that on yer memento

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

Thank you :D

HazelnutSheep it's mom

Mom

It's mom, end of.

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

Its mom.

Did you even watch the video?

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.

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.

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.

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.

ReversedVision Mum = Correct Mom = Incorrect

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

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

Autism Smarts Mother is a different word.

Wrong ;)

I feel bad . :(