mama n’dem/ mam n’dem
Informant: Libby Flint, age 59, New Orleans resident of 36 years, originally from Upstate New York and Vermont. Collected May 22, 2016 and recorded on iphone.
Verbal Lore: Folk speech, slang
English
United States of America
Context: your relatives, your extended family, usually including your mother and usually spoken by adults.
Transcript:
“ If you are going to go visit your relative on the weekend instead you would say ‘I’m gonna go down by my mama an’dem.”
Informant info: (Left to Right) Sadhana Puri, age 20, Jessica Link, age 20, Alex Ledoux, age 21 all from New Orleans, LA
Transcript:
“Jessica: Ya mom’n’em
Sadhana: ya mom’n’em
Jessica: I don’t hear that, but that’s on a shirt
Sadhana: People say that as a joke sometimes.
Jessca: But it comes from a real
Sadhana: Just a quirk. It comes from a real thing.
Alex: I’ve definitely heard people say it. Like I don’t speak like that, but if somebody said that I would know what they are talking about.”
Collectors Commentary:
Keywords: New Orleans, Mam n’dem, mama n’ dem, mom, mother