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Posted: Aug 21 2009 at 8:53am | IP Logged Quote florasita
me with a silly question to all you canadian & british mums here . how do you spell mummy ? mummie ? instead of the mommy version ?
It was yrs back my dear friend Dottie said I say mom like mum and it dawned on me well yes of course I do being canadian and my old age of course in school learned mum is mum
what got me started was this canadin mcD commercial here has a little girl getting an autograph from a canadian athlete and she asks him to spell mommy . I told dh that is not the proper canadian spelling of the word . He then said well mummy isn't either it would be for a mummified mummy and insists it would be mommy

so then I wondered how did I spell it as a child ..mummy or mummie ? or perhaps it is mommy
I do not consider myself very patriotic person yet for some reason this just seems important to me
so what would be your version ?

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Posted: Aug 21 2009 at 11:27am | IP Logged Quote Fe2h2o
Mummy. Well, that's the way we do it in Australia, and we use British spelling for pretty much everything. And yes, there are a few jokes (none of which can I recall at the moment!) about Mummy being a mummy:-)

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My dd's Canadian Oxford dictionary has both mommy informal mother and mum, mummy(cdn, Brit) informal mother.

I grew up in Ontario and learned to say mummy but spell mommy for that extra dose of phonic confusion.
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Posted: Aug 31 2009 at 4:40pm | IP Logged Quote trish
That's how I learned it too. Say mummy .... spell it mommy.

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Posted: Sept 01 2009 at 5:04pm | IP Logged Quote doris
Mummy. Although I've seen the odd thing signed by my grandmother (who died in the 1950s) which say 'Mummie'.

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I grew up in Australia calling my mother "Mum"; my kids call me either "Mama" or "Mummy", which I would prefer rather than "Mom" that they use here in Canada.
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Posted: Sept 29 2009 at 9:05am | IP Logged Quote florasita
wow Thank You gals for all the responces ! Yes we all say & pronounce as mum but because of internet , tv media influences all our children write the word as mom which somehow I just cannot get over . Seems a piece of our culture gone missing .
I'll remain mum & mummy this is for certain
Thanks again    

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