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English coloquial word 'Mum' or 'Mummy' version is derived from the French/Italian word 'Mamma' and was recorded as being used in 1823.

The alternative American spelling 'Mom' was first recorded being used in America in 1894.

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we have mums because mums would make children and when their children grow old they can make more of us and its something called the circle of llife.

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