Question about your maternal parent!

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The woman who bore you (or adopted you, or whatever!)--what do you call her?

There are likely as many nicknames for her as there are people, but there are some standard ones:

Mom
Mommy
Mama
Ma
Mother
Momma
Mummy
Mum
Mammy

and probably a dozen that I can't think of right now.

I call my mother "Ma." What do you call yours?

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. Mom

Mommy, when I'm whiny.

[JVS]

2. Mom, but I've been using ma more recently

[Blue-Jay]

3. Mom, Mum or Ma. I like to mix it up.

sometimes I even refer to her as "Our Joyce".

[VenusRising]

4. A fucking bitch.

But that's a long story.

I call my MIL "mom".

[GirlinContempt]

5. Mum

[petronius]

6. Coworkers, students, and republicans...

That's what I call women who bore me.

(Mom is never boring, however.)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Now, Goddamn %$#@!ing packrat.

I've spent the last four years cleaning out her house.

[QMPMom]

8. I call her my "Thankfully Deceased Biological So-Called Mother".

And I don't visit her grave and won't. Too bad my wonderful Dad and Stepmother will be buried in the same family plot as her someday. I won't be able to avoid her grave then.

[MissHoneychurch]

9. Mutti

:D

[Ariana Celeste]

10. Mama

and mommy.

:D

[BrotherBuzz]

11. Mom, but Mom called her Mom Mother and my grandpa was always called father,

Very formal, and very poor, they were.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I call her Momma.....

Even though I'm in my 60's, and she's nearly 90......

It just feels right to me!

[SeattleGirl]

13. Mostly, I call her Mom. But sometimes, it's Momma Bear, or Ma.

Just depends on the mood at the time.

[ashling]

14. Mommy when I was young

mother or mom by the time I was in high school