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Mamma, Mother

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The former is Norman-French, and the latter Anglo-Saxon. (See Papa.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Mamelon
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