Which sounds weird, but AFAIK isn't that uncommon in the South.
That's what my dad from SE Texas called his folks.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
lisah - May 19, 2005 11:25:20 am PDT #7709 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
erikaj - May 19, 2005 11:28:55 am PDT #7710 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Mostly, it's mom...sometimes "Mama' if I'm feeling Elvis.
ChiKat - May 19, 2005 11:36:29 am PDT #7711 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Mother and Daddy. Which sounds weird, but AFAIK isn't that uncommon in the South.
Not uncommon at all. I call my parents Mom and Daddy. But, they both called their mothers, Mother.
Betsy HP - May 19, 2005 11:37:12 am PDT #7712 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I call my parents Mama and Daddy, and they're in their 70s.
sumi - May 19, 2005 12:11:24 pm PDT #7713 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
But -- a mother name -- not a family nickname, right?
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 12:18:10 pm PDT #7714 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
a mother name -- not a family nickname, right?
Depends. My paternal grandfather was called "Bapa" by everyone, and I think it's a father name.
Also, my Aunt Faye is Aunt Faye to just about everyone in her family (her daughter calls her Ma Faye, and I've heard people not her children do that too). And her first name isn't even Faye.
sumi - May 19, 2005 12:19:08 pm PDT #7715 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Was he called Bapa as a young man before he was married?
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 12:23:31 pm PDT #7716 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nope. A father name as in he was called that as a father. Wouldn't that count as a family nick, or have I missed something crucial?
Oh! Her childhood. I thought the passage meant they'd called her that in their childhood.
Never mind.
Susan W. - May 19, 2005 4:03:46 pm PDT #7717 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
One of the interlibrary loan holds I picked up from the library today came from Yorkshire. Cool, eh? I didn't even know ILL was international.
Jesse - May 19, 2005 4:04:50 pm PDT #7718 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Never mind.
I think this may be an occasion to make note of.