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Reply to "Why do American women call themselves "mums.""
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[quote=Anonymous]My kids call me Mum and Mummy. I did the same with my mother and she did the same with hers. This, despite the fact that we all write "Mom" or "Mommy." Come to think of it, a number of my childhood friends did the same. I was raised in the Boston suburbs but my mother was raised in New Hampshire by a mother who grew up in Maine, so I think it's a regional thing. Maybe it's just a function of English roots running deep in Puritanical New England or maybe it's something that spread south to Maine and New Hampshire from Canada. [/quote]
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