On Saturday 29 December 2012 22:04:27 Tony Rein wrote: > > By the way, is it Mom or Mum? English is not my primary language... Je > > parle en francais, mais je vis au Canada :) > > > > Merry Christmas! > > -Alexandre > > Bonjour Alexandre! > > I didn't see that you ever got an answer to the above question. The > answer is that it's both. "Mom" is American and "Mum" is British. I > don't know what they use in English Canada. He did get one. I was the OP and I replied. I said what you said, but with the addition that I pointed out that because of local accents, Mum and Mom are usually pronounced to sound almost exactly the same. Lisi