7 June 2018 (Friday) – online

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, discusses why the word ‘daddy’ is similar the world over, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

“Infant speech acquisition patterns have formed similar parental names for millennia but ‘sugar daddies’ came along only in the early 1900s”

Please click on the following link for the complete article:

http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2149719/why-word-daddy-similar-world-over

Source: SCMP