- 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 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:
- meaning - Is there an explanation for why both pop and pops are . . .
According to the OED, the s in pops is: A shortened form of the hypocoristic dim suffix -sy, added to the same classes of words, as Babs, Toots, ducks, moms
- 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
- 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 wo
- What do the parents of married children call each other? As in, the . . .
There's a specific term for the relationship between people whose children marry each other: co-parents-in-law
- Step on a crack, break your mother’s back
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- terminology - Is there a term for your parents ex-spouse who is not . . .
How would one refer to one's parent's 2nd spouse, whom they have divorced? For example, I have a biological father, and a step-father, but what about the man my mother was married to before my step-
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