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the point is that in these three dialects, the words are quite close in pronunciation. to be fair, there are some regions where this is not the case. in the western us, for example, mom is often more clearly "mawm." still, is it possible that mom and mum and mam began as different spellings rather than
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http://dialectblog.com/2011/04/07/mom-mum-mam/