He remembered being in a small church in the country, hisdaddyat the pulpit and the congregation singing that hymn.
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Suppose the child knows the meanings of mummy anddaddybut does not yet know what the word tray means.
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When you are big and have children, and you are their mommy (ordaddy), which language or languages will you teach them?
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Yeah, that's 15 years ago when mydaddydie.
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Nearly all are flora and fauna terms, so they too may be morphologically complex in the same semantically opaque way as, say,daddylonglegs.
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Then we get the "daddy" of the lot, in paragraph (d).
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I retain that early interest in this unique and pioneer medium—thedaddyof them all.
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They associate it with their family, with what mummy anddaddymight do.
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My children could ring up from school and transfer the charge todaddy.
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When the little curly-headed lassie puts her arms around herdaddyto say goodbye, she does not know whether he will return.
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Now, while there are 2,000 or 3,000 wild plants, there are literally tens of thousands of wild creatures—deer, fish, butterfles, snails,daddylong legs, earthworms.
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It is because mydaddyis getting a new car.
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I understand that "sugardaddy" is a term related to a different form of cultural activity.
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It is even more absurd ifdaddyis merely a director of a subsidiary company.
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It is taken bydaddy, on his ability to sign a big cheque.
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