This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 1,115, mom or mother, dad or father, which one should you use?

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Today we get a great question from a listener. How should you refer to your parents in natural English?

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Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Excellent Michelle, never better,, Michelle. Never better.

Never better.

Ooh, I like that.

That's very positive.

You've putting me in a good mood.

Well, you know, we're getting close to spring hopefully, and March is going to be a quieter month for me, not as much travel, but I'm looking forward to just getting some work done and hanging around Boston. So all good.

That's good, that's good. Well, do you have any plans to see your mom and dad?

Oh my gosh, I just saw them this past weekend and we took care of my niece, my five-year-old niece, we had a blast.

So, yeah, yeah, so fun. That's nice. Yeah, I saw my mom and dad when they came to help me, you know when I had the baby and I'll see them again in a couple months. How often do you see your parents? I feel like I see them a fair amount now, maybe once every six weeks, more or less, something like that,

maybe every couple months.

Because, you know, they take care of Emory and when they're taking care of Emory I'll go and help them out with that.

Yeah, she's so cute.

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