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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
- 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"
- 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?
- 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?
- 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
- Do I place a comma after the word Dad or is it correct as is?
From a logical pov, I always add the comma in this situation - it's referred to as a "Serial Comma " So, your sentence would look like apple, banana, and orange It depends really on when two objects are necessarily bound by the "and" or not Contextually, the serial comma usually can be dropped without loss of meaning Indeed, the trend has been to not place a comma However, I was trained in
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