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- 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
- When should Mom and Dad 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 Betsy has shown me how good that a horse can be
- etymology - Why father is called dada and not fafa - English . . .
Read the words below : Mother - mama - mammy Father - dada - daddy Why is father not called fafa or faddy?
- meaning - Is there an explanation for why both pop and pops are . . .
Both the Oxford English dictionary and Merriam Webster give the definition of "pop" (singular) to mean "father" in an informal manner and give "pops" to be the plural form of pop, thus "fathers"
- 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 is the relationship name of my sibling-in-laws sibling to me?
For example: I have a sister named Charlotte Charlotte is married to Martin Martin has a brother named William Martin is my brother-in-law, but what is William to me?
- What do the parents of married children call each other? As in, the . . .
I am looking for an expression or term that would describe the relationship between the two mothers of their married children
- Is there a word meaning my childs spouses parents?
If I am introducing someone to my daughter's husband's parents can I say "Hi, I'd like to you meet my ___ " In-laws would not work here because they are my child's in-laws not my own Is there a word for this relationship?
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