Pronunciation of the English word mum.
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1. | "'Tom lives only an hour away,' that's what Mary said at school today. What does that mean, Mum?" Mum thought for a moment. "Well," she began, as she usually began her answers, "a distance can be expressed as a unit of time when you've established a constant rate of speed – it might be the average speed of a pedestrian, a bicycle or a car. But without knowing the context, the most natural choice would be the speed of light in vacuum, according to which–" Mum did the mental arithmetic, Johnny meanwhile scribbling everything down on a notepad, "Tom lives about a billion kilometres away, possibly on an asteroid somewhere near Saturn." | |
2. | She is now looking like mum and not like her mum. | |
3. | Mum, why doesn't Dad clean his own study? | |
4. | Keep mum about this plan. | |
5. | "Hello, Mum. Is that you?" she says. | |
6. | Having done my homework, I had a chat with Mum. | |
7. | My mum is about to take a bath. | |
8. | My dad's estranged. (Because my mum's hopeless). | |
9. | Mum, a mere woman surrounded by men, works in a construction company as a site foreman. | |
10. | Mum said the same thing. But, so what? It's got nothing to do with me. |