The word 'mum' is correct and usable in written English.
It is primarily used as an informal way to refer to one's mother. For example, "My mum likes to knit for her grandkids."
My eldest kids had a very tough time when they lost their mum and I don't want them to lose their dad.
My look was described as "All Saints mum" once.
We would look at German Burda [a pattern and fashion] magazine together and discuss what looked nice – and because my mum had that attitude and payed attention to fashion, I think something stayed with me.
"It means your dad working all the overtime hours that London Transport will give you, aspiration means your mum, notwithstanding having eight children, works as a seamstress at home as well to make ends meet.
No matter how much science you can quote, you're never going to get people to think you are making sense in that context if you look like an MMR-shy mum".
I was usually too quick and ducked out of the way, but sometimes he struck mum.
So if the beginning of his care was at times dramatic and shocking – and it was then on to helping mum get up to speed on incontinence products – the second stage was agonisingly prolonged.
He often used to sit in silence just looking at me or mum, smiling, content to be with his family, at home and being looked after.
In a message shared by her mum on Twitter, Sophie wrote: "Why can't girls have dinosaur shoes?
When I was run over by a train in Mumbai and thought I was about to die, my first thought was: "How could I do this to my mum?" My second thought was about kebabs.
Q My mum died just over a year ago, and as a family, we decided that we would like my 76-year-old dad to come and live with us as he is already with us most days.
