Comment on Why do men call their father their "old man", but their "old lady" is their wife?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago“mama” is a cross-cultural word for mother. It’s the easiest word for a baby to pronounce.
Comment on Why do men call their father their "old man", but their "old lady" is their wife?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago“mama” is a cross-cultural word for mother. It’s the easiest word for a baby to pronounce.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Probably the other way round when you think about it… Mums/mamas were named this way because it’s the first articulate thing babies say all over the world
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 months ago
“M” is the most common consonant sound across the world’s languages precisely because of how easy it is to pronounce and recognize. All major languages have it or some kind of close enough equivalent