What affectionate term for mother should I use in writing? I’m horrendously English so I don’t want to use mom, but I don’t say mum because I’m from the north east, but most Americans might not get mam and mistake it for ma’am or something, which then means it’s not an affectionate term for mother anymore and some clinical strict relationship instead. But I call my own mother ma.
As a reader do you find a less commonly used word like mam would disrupt your flow of reading or confuse you? Wtf should I use man