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What is the history of the term "mom"?
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The word mom originated from the French word maman, which means “mother”. It was first used in English in the early 1800s. In the late 1800s, it began to be used as a shortened form of the phrase “mother tongue”, meaning the language that you are most comfortable speaking and understanding. By the 1930s, the term had become popularly associated with motherhood, and by the 1960s, it had become a common way to refer to one's own mother or mother-in-law.