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- When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? - English Language Usage . . .
When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun Say you had a horse named Betsy and were re-writing the sentence to refer to her: The one thing I learned from my horse was that it was good to earn the trust of one's children
- Mom and Dad vs Dad and Mom [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
I'm curious if the order implies anything here I'm pretty sure "Mom and Dad" is standard in English The issue was hard for me to google, so I'm asking it here: Is using "Dad" before "Mom" incorr
- grammatical number - Dads corner or dads corner - English . . .
Dads' corner - a corner for many fathers A useful comparison is Father's Day (or Mother's Day) It's a day to appreciate many fathers, but is written this way as it's a usually day to appreciate one father at a time This is a generic plural Another example is Dad's Army, the name of a sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War
- Is it appropriate to use sport, champ, or kiddo to call a child . . .
I agree with your findings that "sport" and "champ" can be pejorative or at least not-endearing, but kiddo rarely is The first two are also, in my opinion, losing their foothold in the lexicon of American dads As well, all three are quite camp-y expressions, and it won't be long before calling your son "champ" will sound just as silly as calling him "sailor" or "cowboy" or some other
- How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping snoring?
Edit: Another Wikipedia page: The big Z It is a convention in American comics that the sound of a snore can be reduced to a single letter Z Thus a speech bubble with this letter standing all alone (again, drawn by hand rather than a font type) means the character is sleeping in most humorous comics This can be seen, for instance, in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strips Being such a long
- What do you call your grand-fathers brother? (grand- v great-)
Your father's father is called your grand-father, yet your father's uncle is typically called your great-uncle (or so it seems with anybody I converse with) Why the inconsistency?
- Why father is called dada and not fafa
Read the words below : Mother - mama - mammy Father - dada - daddy Why is father not called fafa or faddy?
- phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The phrase ‘girl dad’ was popularised after the tragic passing away of NBA star Kobe Bryant in a 2020 helicopter crash The athlete died alongside his 13-year-old daughter Gianna It is used to refer to dads who have daughters and is often used to capture the love between fathers and their daughters
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