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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
- 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
- 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
- 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 the male equivalent to Cougar (woman)?
What is the male equivalent to the term "cougar"? Clarifying The term "cougar" describes an older woman seeking younger men So a male equivalent would be an older man seek
- kinship terms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I am looking for an expression or term that would describe the relationship between the two mothers of their married children
- single word requests - 1920s terms for parents children - English . . .
What would young children (aged around 5-ish) have called their parents circa 1920's England? Were there specific terms of endearment, or would it just be "mother" and "father"? I'm particularly th
- 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
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