On my walk this morning I was approached in a friendly manner
by one dog, one cat (most unusually), one donkey, one horse, two cows, one
woman from the village, and one man from the village. That’s a lot for a
morning walk, isn’t it? Guess which ones were welcomed in return
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It occurred to me today that when we refer to people’s parents we always call them ‘mum and dad.’ (Or mops and pops if you’re a southerner, mother and father if you’re being formal, mater and pater if you’re very posh and at least 100 years old, and ma and pa if you’re American.) What’s odd is that in western culture it has generally been the norm to place the masculine ahead of the feminine. So why the difference?
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