When you talk about your parents to others... do you say...

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Anonymous wrote:Very close, but only say "Mom took us ..." to my siblings. Not even to my cousins.

This. I have some friends who just say "Mom" or "Dad" and it always makes me do a double-take.

I worked with a woman (she was 26 or 27) who was raised by a single dad - I can't remember why - and would refer to him when talking to us, her COWORKERS, as "Daddy." Skeeved me out. "Daddy is taking me to New York for the long weekend." At first we thought this was a romantic sugar daddy situation so we nominated one coworker to ask. Nope. Her actual father.

Well, bless your heart. That's a regionalism. It is very common, for example, for people from the South to say "Daddy" instead of Dad, just like some people in the North-East will say "Mummy" instead of Mom. Try to get out of your tunnel, PP. It will do you a world of good.

Go bless your own heart, PP. The former coworker wasn't from the South. She was from California. NORTHERN California.

Oh dear. You just don't get it. I bet you hear that a lot. Oh well. DP.

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Anonymous wrote:I use the "my" in front unless talking to my siblings. It annoys me when people don't. Your mom isn't EVERYONE's mom, just yours.

One of my friends from high school used to say "my" even when talking to her sister-I thought that was so weird. She'd say something to her sister like "My mom said that when we get home from school she wants us to vacuum the living room and walk the dog." They both had the same mom--so it was weird to me that they used "my."

I had noticed bilingual English/Spanish speakers did this - we raised our kids in both and noticed they do it, too with each other.