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Angel said:
Dudley Zoo has announced the birth of a snow leopard cub on it's website this morning. The cub, born on May 2nd, is the first to be born at the zoo for 12 years. Link to the article is here:

Meet our snow leopard cub! | Dudley Zoological Gardens

I'm absolutely delighted by the news as the snow leopards are probably my favourites at the Zoo - will be aiming to visit in the next couple of weeks.
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If you, or in fact anyone else goes, please take pictures! I'm hoping to go myself but will probably wait a bit until it's a bit more active, it'd be a shame to make the trip specially and not see it.
 
I hate this increasing use of the word 'MOM'- it is the US version of our 'MUM'- why isn't our own version good enough anymore so that it has to be americanised!!!:mad::mad::mad:
 
Pertinax said:
I hate this increasing use of the word 'MOM'- it is the US version of our 'MUM'- why isn't our own version good enough anymore so that it has to be americanised!!!:mad::mad::mad:
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Having half my family come from the area, I can confirm people in the Black Country have always used 'mom'. It's not an Americanism.
 
I've never heard it or seen it written like that until quite recently- but I'll believe you.;)
 
Well, on ZooBorns it probably is an Americanism, but it's perfectly appropriate for a Dudley collection! :D
 
I'm originally from Worcestershire (of which Dudley was formerly a part) and it's certainly mom !
 
As a north-easterner I can say you are all wrong - the word you are looking for is mam ;)
 
Pertinax said:
I'm certainly familiar with 'mam'- as in 'me mam' but not this 'mom'- at least outside of the USA.:confused:
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It's very much a West Midlands thing - you hear it in Birmingham as well as the Black Country/Worcestershire but not really anywhere else.

The Black Country dialect is considered a very old one by modern English standards so maybe the word was once more common - a lot of the differences in US and UK English result from UK English having evolved more quickly since the US was colonised, with the result that the US versions are often older.
 
Maguari said:
It's very much a West Midlands thing - you hear it in Birmingham as well as the Black Country/Worcestershire but not really anywhere else.

The Black Country dialect is considered a very old one by modern English standards so maybe the word was once more common - a lot of the differences in US and UK English result from UK English having evolved more quickly since the US was colonised, with the result that the US versions are often older.
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Yes, I remember reading that Richard III spoke with something akin to a Black Country accent. Somehow the idea of Shakespeare giving him as his last lines "Tarra a bit" doesn't quite convince...:rolleyes:
 
Maguari said:
It's very much a West Midlands thing - you hear it in Birmingham as well as the Black Country/Worcestershire but not really anywhere else.
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Interesting then that I pounced on the use of the word 'mom' in the one part of the UK where it is, apparently, part of the local culture and of course Dudley is also part of that culture.
 
Pertinax said:
Interesting then that I pounced on the use of the word 'mom' in the one part of the UK where it is, apparently, part of the local culture and of course Dudley is also part of that culture.
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Yes - of all the UK's zoos, you selected with admirable precision the exact single zoo where you're most likely to hear a local use the word! :D
 
Right, let me clear this up (for TLD and Pertinax :p) the word "mom" is how i refer to my mother, it's also what she calls her mother. it's what my girlfriend calls her mother... It is most definitely not exclusively an Americanism! Unless of course we've become the 51st state overnight. ;)
 
Brum said:
Right, let me clear this up (for TLD and Pertinax :p) the word "mom" is how i refer to my mother, it's also what she calls her mother. it's what my girlfriend calls her mother... It is most definitely not exclusively an Americanism! Unless of course we've become the 51st state overnight. ;)
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I also use the word "Mom" when refering to my mother - although I would always write it "Mum".... :p
 
CambsVet said:
I also use the word "Mom" when refering to my mother - although I would always write it "Mum".... :p
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If I'm writing a note/text/anything to her personally then it's "mom" but if it's referring to her when writing to someone else then it does indeed become "mum". :)
 
Brum said:
It is most definitely not exclusively an Americanism! Unless of course we've become the 51st state overnight. ;)
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i think its exclusively an Americanism- apart from, as now pointed out to me, the Black Country/Birmingham area which apparently-from what you say- uses it linguistically too. Elsewhere in the UK I haven't come across its usage, at least until very recently. Hence my rant...;) I will have to check what area it is being used from before I rant again.:)
 
Pertinax said:
i think its exclusively an Americanism- apart from, as now pointed out to me, the Black Country/Birmingham area which apparently-from what you say- uses it linguistically too. Elsewhere in the UK I haven't come across its usage, at least until very recently. Hence my rant...;) I will have to check what area it is being used from before I rant again.:)
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I'm quite shocked that it isn't used anywhere else in the UK, I always thought it was quite commonplace! :)
 
It's a girl!

The new snow leopard cub is a female and has been named Nidara (it means 'fearless' in Hindi).
 
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