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What do you call your parents by?


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  1. 1. What do you call your parents by?

    • Mom
      48
    • Mum
      12
    • Dad
      46
    • Mommy
      7
    • Daddy
      7
    • Papa
      8
    • Mama (or Mamma)
      17
    • Tata
      4
    • Majko
      0
    • Abba
      0
    • Pops
      4
    • Mother
      12
    • Father
      8
    • Other (please explain in a post)
      21


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Mommy and Daddy. 

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Hold on! Hold on! I can explain! :lie: I'm Chinese, more specifically I speak the Cantonese dialect. In Hong Kong, it's common to just call your parents 媽咪 (Ma-mi) and 爹啲 (Deh-di), that is what I call my parents by too because it's the more friendly name to approach your parents by. You can also call them 呀媽 (Ah-ma) or 呀爸 (Ah-ba), but that's it bit more informal and is viewed as somewhat rude. There also the swear words that I won't get into. :D But the name is called these words are just pronounced exactly like the words "mommy" and "daddy", alright? Just wanted to justify myself real quick. :adorkable:

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Mum and Dad if I am talking to them...

if I am talking to an American about my parents (or mentioning them), then I'll say Mom and Dad

and if I am talking about them to someone in most cases I'll say maw and da

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As a norwegian, I call them "mamma" and "pappa," and  always feels a little weird whenever I hear someone refer to their parents as "mor" or "far" :blink:

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I use to call my mother mama when I was younger, but now I've gotten into calling her mother most of the time. Sometimes I call her mom when I want to shorten it. I used mugger a few times when I say mother in a silly way.

As for my father, I've never been able to call him anything directly because he went to prison when I was young, younger than I'm able to remember. When I bring him up in a conversation, it's either "my father" or his real name since I'm not sure how to feel about him. Even then, I'm still uncomfortable using both of those terms.

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I have replied before but I figured I could be more specific. 

I call my mother both "äiti" and "äitee", first one is the normal word for mom/mother, and second is the same one but with a dialect. 

For my father, I used to call him "Isi" (somewhere between dad and daddy) when I was kid, but nowadays I call him "Isä" (Father) 

In english when talking about them, I use father and mother. 

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