Tell me what do you call your parents?

**Clairity** · 07-05-2008 11:02 PM

When I refer to my parents, it's mom and dad.. but when I speak directly to them.. it's mama and daddy. I'm from Iowa originally so it may be a midwestern, girl thing.

What do you call your parents when you're speaking to them. Please select only one word for each parent and those who don't speak English to your parents, please try to find the closest English word.

**apachama** · 07-05-2008 11:05 PM

Mum and dad to them. Sometimes "my mother" or "my father" in conversation.

**Marvo** · 07-05-2008 11:27 PM

Mom and dad, in all situations. Mother and father are kinda lame words in danish and they are hardly used.

**Man of Steel** · 07-06-2008 12:00 AM

Originally Posted by Clairity

When I refer to my parents, it's mom and dad.. but when I speak directly to them.. it's mama and daddy. I'm from Iowa originally so it may be a midwestern, girl thing.

It's not just a midwestern girl thing, I'm the same way. Mama and Daddy in person, usually reference them as my parents or my mother or father in conversation to someone else. It's a southern thing too.

**Kushna Mufeed** · 07-06-2008 12:04 AM

I call my mom 'Mama' and I call my dad 'Baba'. I don't tend to use those when referring to them in conversation, though.

**ThePhobiaViewed** · 07-06-2008 12:22 AM

I've always called my mom mummy and my dad deed. My mom is mummy because thats what she called her mom so I guess thats what I was taught to call her and deed was probably because I couldn't say dad correctly or something when I was young and I just never changed that. I don't talk to them much anymore and if I do I usually don't call them anything. When I talk about them in conversation its always just mom and dad.

**marlie** · 07-06-2008 12:51 AM

I call my mother ma and my dad just dad but in say a birthday or fathers day card and sometimes when talk to him i call him raymondo ( his names raymond and i added the o when i was like 5 and it stuck) when talkin to others i refer to them as ma and dad.

**Techno** · 07-06-2008 01:04 AM

I call my dad 'Tati', which is the Romanian word for dad, and I used to call my mom "Mami", which os pretty much the Romanian way of saying it.

**ray** · 07-06-2008 01:16 AM

lol i use a lot of words for my parents.usually i use mom and dad when speaking directly to them but if i am trying to cutesy up to them i use mommy and daddy or if i am pretending to be mad i use mother and father at them.when i speak of them i use ma and pa or mum/mom and dad.whatever works ya know?

**Xox** · 07-06-2008 01:34 AM

Muma and Pupa. (Mum pronounced mum, and pup like the dog

)

I refer to them as mom, dad, father, mother, etc.

**Dizko** · 07-06-2008 01:43 AM

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**Adrenaline Junkie** · 07-06-2008 02:28 AM

I just call my parents by their first names, mum and dad seems a bit too tacky to me.

**EchoSun13** · 07-06-2008 03:25 AM

I call my mama, mama and my pa, pa or Joe...He isn't really close to me.
I love my mama, she's the best women ever.
I would be at lost without her.

**Patrick** · 07-06-2008 12:05 PM

Mum and Dad. I'm dissapointed you left 'mum' out of your poll.

**Adam** · 07-06-2008 12:55 PM

I call my Dad by his first name and my Mum, I call her Dorris, even though that is not her real name

**dreamsinmymynd** · 07-06-2008 04:29 PM

Mom and Dad in all situations.

**EchoSun13** · 07-06-2008 05:31 PM

I sometimes call my mama mommy...when I miss her I will....But one day when I called and said mommy I heard people laughing and say awww...She put me on speaker phone....I miss her right now..I haven't seen her in a week...Im gunna make a phone call...

**ninja9578** · 07-06-2008 06:23 PM

Mom and dad when speaking to them, mother and father when speaking about them.

**JET73L** · 07-06-2008 06:24 PM

I usually call the mom and dad, if anything, when speaking to them directly. When talking about them to other people, it just seems weird, and I usually end up changing the posessive "my" to "m' " and mom to "m'm" or "mum," unless I happen to be using an accent that enunciates with particular clarity, in which case I do use "mom" in the 3rd person. I haven;t found any suitable 3rd-person replacements for the word "dad," but I occasionaly pronounce it "da' " when using a southern or extremely thick midwestern drawl.

note: I have no accent of my own. I spoke with near-complete monotony as a child, and only developed my current system of using different accents based on my current mood or language as I began to watch television more, and read more and more manga and books by british authors (most notably, Discworld and H2G2)

**Thatperson** · 07-06-2008 08:54 PM

Mum/Dad but when talking about them moeder and vader (dutch) im not actually dutch but most of my friend refer to their parents like that just because its how we work lol

**kichu** · 07-06-2008 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

I just call my parents by their first names, mum and dad seems a bit too tacky to me.

WHAT are you talking about? What's tacky about it? Tacky?

**cuddleyperson** · 07-06-2008 10:56 PM

usually mum but if i wanna beg or kinda be annoying i'll say Mummy.

SO like " mummy... u wanna make me a cuppa tea?" lol

My dad is just dad, used to be daddy when i was younger but now i know him more and know what a prat he is i'll stick to " hey dad.."