We now want more, right away, and Google MUM is the beginning of meeting these needs. Eliminating language barriers A year later, Mom’s breast cancer from decades past returned and I was pregnant again; it seemed that my Midwest roots and our moms were calling us home. My husband found work in Kansas City and we bought a house that was a 10-minute drive from Mom and Teri, our three homes forming an imperfect triangle on the map. Mom quietly began chemo treatments, and the grandmas traded off watching Hope and our new son, Gabriel, while I worked part-time as a freelance magazine and web editor.

Walk and talk. “It’s the most therapeutic way to have a conversation,” says Samuel. “That way you are not eyeballing one another, you are side by side and your bodies are in rhythm, you can have silences, you can be upset. Afterwards have a treat: tea and cake, or a pub lunch.” If your mum isn’t up to walking, a chat in the car works, too. Find time to be together. “My daughter has a new partner, and it’s ages since we saw one another on our own,” says a friend. “The other day she called me and said, ‘Mum, we need some hunkering-down time, just us two.’ We had a night in with a takeaway and a movie, and it was heaven.” “You have a different kind of conversation one-on-one,” says Samuel. “It reignites the bond.” Nagging often comes from concern rather than a need to control One of the easiest ways to differentiate the two is to focus on the British English spelling of the word “mum”. Regional variations exist, with "Mam" the most popular in Munster (38 per cent), Connacht (31 per cent) and Leinster (28 per cent), while "Mum" is top in Ulster (53 per cent). There are also differences within certain counties. For example, Dublin respondents use Mam (27 per cent), Mom (26 per cent) and Ma (14 per cent). There, “mam” and “mamma” developed into “mom” and “momma.” For more on this, read our article, “ Momma or Mama: Which Spelling is Correct?”

The term “mum” has a couple of other meanings in the English language, and one of these actually predates its usage with regard to mothers. Mum’s the Word I appreciate everything you’ve done for me my whole life,” I said, looking down at her, placing my hand over hers.

This got me thinking. We have several informal words for “mother” in English: mum (heard in much of England), mom (heard in much of America), and mam (heard in Ireland and Northern England). But are these actually different words, or are they just, in some sense, the same word? This poem about the death of a mother is one of several beautiful memorial verses that Lesley Woodrow Gibson has written. This mum's poem is a beautiful way to remember a mother on Mother’s Day.For the word that means mother, your choice will depend upon your intended audience. American audiences almost never use mum in this context. The MUM update means searches will serve information that provides helpful, related insights, and will reach further for these sources than any other search engine update before it. Interestingly, though, these words may have even older origins. The word ‘mama’ appears in some form in dozens of languages, including Mandarin, Hindi and Arabic. This is because simple noises like ‘mama’ and ‘papa’ are among most babies’ first vocalisations. We imagine ‘mama’ means ‘feed me’ most of the time.

Ask her about her life now. “Don’t assume that all she’s interested in is planting bulbs and watching telly,” says Perry. “And even if she is, hear her out. She might have some very interesting things to say about them.” Google MUM’s AI smarts will be another piece in mastering and understanding user intent and thought processes. Like every launch, the latest proclaims to be the best. BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) was launched in 2019 and understood searches better than we have ever been able to before. Around this time, keywords became key phrases seeking to provide results based on user intent. In other words, content had to answer common questions. Accents, like language evolve. I always find it interesting listening to old – 30’s, 40’s – radio and television programmes where the American accent is much less pronounced and quite English. Ditto for Australia, Canada and New Zealand. And then it all began to change. This could make a beautiful poem for mum's funeral. This would work best as part of a religious funeral for your mum, but could be easily adapted for a non-religious funeral service or celebration of life. Remembering Mom - a memorial verse for mum by Lesley Woodrow Gibson

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Then, in 1828, Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language, which exceeded Samuel Johnson’s dictionary. It has over 70,000 entries compared to Johnson’s 40,000. Some Examples Even with the breakdown of regional dialects thanks to mass media, British and American accents remain very distinct, and there are still numerous regional British and American accents. Specific Examples