Question from the UK about US spelling of "mom"?

"Mom" has been entrenched in American English for at least a century...Englands authoritarian Madam or Madame seemed much too harsh for Americas Mothers...(please notice the usage of the 'a's' versus the 'o')... How an author used the word, more often than not, was the attempt to 'flavour' that story or passage... America's views of "Mom", versus other forms, was also probably set in stone with the advent of "Mother's Day"...not Madam, Madame or Mam... The 'o' is a comfort sound...and mothers are generally thought of a 'comfort-able'...versus the others which have a harsher sound...and a more authoritarian 'title'...good olde England...stiff upper lip and all that, you know...

Maybe it's seen as warmer sounding or it's how children first learn to say it and it sticks but I really don't know.

I am Scottish and refer to my mother and father as mammy and pops :)

Mom was even used in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, perhaps because he spent time in America or because the French may have used the term at some time also?

Mom has been the accepted short form to repalce mother in the US for well over 100 years.

Interesting question!

Since we moved some years ago (when our youngest was still school age) I went from being called Mum to Mam (Welsh way of saying it) and am called Mammy if she is trying to get round me!! And yet I call my Mom just that - Mom.

Mom sounds similar to Aum or Om. Compared to other words in american usage it is a fairly mantra like evocation.

Mom. We have a relation with a child who whines mommy mommy ...it is so cute I ... In Indian they say Ma, and here in the UK it is a short and abrupt mum, or severe and harsh Mother... As if you didnt know this... I speak and also listen..

i from malaysia n i had noticed that most of the subtitle from america used to call mom! not only that, like for example colour in UK but color in US! there are so much more differences the both countries.

For me it was always Mommy and as I grew older it became Mom, I like how mum sounds, though!

I don't actually know. I guess it's just evolved over time. I do prefer mum though. It doesn't sound like you're moaning.

it never has ,it just became one in england they say mum and here in the states we say mom it all means the same thing .

Interesting question; many good answers.

Mum or Mom...I wish my mother was still here.