How native speakers pronounce “dad”

(Laughter) Being sent to bed by his dad, to Shakespeare, "Go to bed, now!" To William Shakespeare.

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They didn’t have $53 million, but they bought as many mom and dad clams as they could, and they planted them.

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you would ride with my mom and if you’re arriving on time, you’d go with my dad. They had two minivans for only two kids.

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and release the pressure of doing what everyone else is doing? It's OK to be a stay-at-home dad. It's OK if you prefer to travel without each other.

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We drove four days and three nights from Illinois to California. My dad withdrew his pension, the church and extended family gave us what they could, and we was off.

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"So happy for you, Neal! I think your dad was watching over you too." The newest technology,

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I met Stefan and his 60-year-old dad, Gerhard, a beer sommelier who never wrote a single line of code.

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She started a new role working from home, all while managing her dad's new diagnosis of dementia. And to manage the stress of all this change,

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(Laughter) Sorry, mom and dad. Sometimes, that nudge is a gentle poke.

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that is the essence of the black barbershop. I can remember going to the barbershop with my dad as a kid. We went to Mr. Mike's barbershop every other Saturday.

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every time we went. "Hey Rev," they would say to my dad. He's a local pastor, and they treated him like a celebrity.

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in a way that other careers kind of don't do, you know? Like my dad, for example, was a chemical engineer and I don't recall once in his 40 years of chemical engineering

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>> I think this all goes back to what I learned from growing up having the dad I had who was not just an artist but a

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my kids were too young to reach it she said yeah that's how my dad would send me a signal that he was okay

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Within two weeks of starting leucovorin, he turned to his dad when he was leaving for work and said, "Daddy, I love you." It's just incredible.

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I'll tell you a story. My dad once sold our TV, the only TV we had,

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It's not just the clothing we wear. If I think about the stent that's in my dad's heart, that's keeping that heart beating, that's a medical textile.

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In fact, he's working in these same plants where his uncle and his dad used to work. But now he's an owner of that plant,

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(Laughter) My dad, who was always the one to see people's gifts instead of their limits, wrote a letter back to Mr. Jensen.

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picked last for, you guessed it, kickball. I took solace in my dad's sincere support. But now, as a business owner,

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

"but you should see her," my dad showed me that focusing on strengths more than weaknesses feels really good.

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So with all that great karma my dad had built up around appreciation with me, it only seems right that some praise would ultimately come his way.

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"Well, it's better than having a eulogy read over a casket." My dad died seven years ago at the age of 96, and he was surrounded by family and friends and two hospice workers.

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and ultimately he'd chosen cremation over that "casket." As I looked over at my dad's ashes, I had to smile because, you know, our dad really loved beer.

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As I looked over at my dad's ashes, I had to smile because, you know, our dad really loved beer. So instead of putting his ashes in a blasé urn,

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

beats the alternative, I wrote my dad a letter. And the theme of the letter reflected a common thread

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The theme of building. Our dad had helped to build so many things. Gun emplacements in World War II;

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she said sometimes she wanted her to die. Sandy and I happened to go for a walk not long after my dad passed, and I said I felt this sense of freedom and a lack of regret,

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contentedness and calm. I vividly recall the last night my dad was alive. By then he was unconscious, and everyone else had gone to bed.

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who are thirsty to know they're making a difference. Like my dad said, it's better than having a eulogy read over a casket.

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Then one day, my 10-year-old son said, "You know, Dad, those people aren't in our apartment. They can't hear you.

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avocado and citrus growers in rural Southern California. My dad was a surgeon at our local hospital, and my mom ran the ranch

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until I did. When I was three and my dad was 42, he was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer

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and riding their bikes, my brother and I were in my dad's version of survival school. And we were learning all kinds of things:

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because someone who is good is not someone who hangs up on her dying dad. I was using achievement

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because it's easier than admitting we have no control. That's what I had been doing for the 25 years since my dad died. But just because you feel guilt and shame,

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and teach you at the same time. I know this because first I lost my dad, but then we lost our family home to wildfire.

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The house and everything in it burned, including almost everything that my dad had worked so hard to do and leave for us after he died.

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behind a bunch of old farming equipment, we found a couple five-gallon plastic buckets of my dad's honey. He'd harvested it more than 30 years earlier

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She chose right-to-die too, which was legal now. And because of the experience we'd had with my dad, we vowed that this time would be totally different.

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Think about ourselves in order to believe in ourselves. Growing up, my dad had a sign on his desk. And it said, "Think."

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but became immensely successful through careers in public service, my mom is a teacher, my dad with the US government. And it gave me this opportunity to be able to lean across the table

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Sometimes in conversation, it comes up, people ask me, "What does your dad do?" or, "Where does he live?" And sometimes I tell them the whole truth,

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Whether that is recipes that you pass down to your kids, whether that's my dad writes me poetry. That's his legacy.

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yet you keep it to yourself. If my dad hadn't written me these beautiful, beautiful forms of poetry, like,

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Baron Ryan: I respect my dad's opinion a lot, and so oftentimes I won't call him for advice

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And so I know for me, even as an adult, I still crave that "I'm proud of you" from my dad. You know, and he gives it to me.

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And every time somebody is like, "Oh my gosh, your dad is so proud of you." I'm always thinking, oh, I wish he told me that, you know.

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BR: You were talking about how you still look for that "good job" from your dad. Whose approval feels the best?

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I still think ... I still think my dad's at the top. I definitely do.

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you kind of experience that at a closer level. So my dad was kind of given this, I would say hero role, like, you're the parent that's going to save us from --

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and I'm worried about -- he would never say anything mean. You know, my dad's not like that, but I just don't want him to feel disappointed,

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I think ... I respect my dad's opinion a lot. And so oftentimes I won't call him for advice because I'm scared --

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when I was buying my house and I was asking my dad for his feedback on everything, and I was just, I needed his approval.

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I don't want to make the wrong decision. It hit me, like, my dad's never bought a house before, you know? At that point, I was living an experience outside of his experience.

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I'm at a point where I'm having experiences that I can't lean on my dad for. My mom passed away, by the way,

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to be in this very surreal position of like, wow, I'm in a stage of life that my dad never was in. And, you know, it's kind of like swimming without a life vest for the first time.

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so I could cover things on the three days a week their dad worked as a flight attendant for Qantas. I smeared sunblock on their noses and Vegemite on their toast.

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They tell you there will be loss. They don't tell you you will be required to love your dad even as he's coming for you with silverware.

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my big brother, Gerry, and she married my dad, but she kept her maiden name. And then she had my sister Stephanie and I back-to-back,

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but she continued to work because she refused to be beholden to my dad for money. And I bet my mom was the only woman in our neighborhood

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and I've spent a lot of years researching how and when people adopt new trends, whether their dad's sneakers or Snapchat filters. And it's kind of ironic because I fell in love with digital fashion,

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or if your son came up to you and said, "Dad, have you lived through the period of the freedom (English) slogan?" How would you feel?

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When my daughter is born, I'll tell her, "This is your father, honey (Arabic)." I wouldn't say, "This is your dad, honey (English)." And in the supermarket, I promise my daughter Noor,

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and a look that says, "Please share some of your bread with us." This is me, my dad and grandmother, Signe. And this is where I come from, the west coast of Norway.

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Most of the time in my childhood, I spent in this yellow boat, with my dad. He was a wildling in many ways, my dad,

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I spent in this yellow boat, with my dad. He was a wildling in many ways, my dad, and he gave me the possibility to learn from nature

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felt even angrier until one day I saw my dad pushing the stroller the exact same way.

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taking my daughter to the park and he's walking like that and I know my dad doesn't care about looking cool.

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Sorry, Dad. Um,

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simple question. I said, "Dad, why are you pushing the stroller like this?"

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Dolly's Tennessee Mountain Home looks exactly like my dad's home in the mountains of Lebanon. Her house looks just like the place that he left.

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and your mother was out in the audience, say. My dad said to me, "That’s one" -- I’ll explain that.

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I said, "I’ve given up riding and driving in cars." My dad said, "Why didn’t you do that when you were 16?" (Laughter)

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And so I went on. My dad came out to see me graduate and, you know, I did the deal,

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And I was the only one in the United States writing on oil spills. My dad came out again. He said, "I don't know how you do this, son --

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Well, my journey kept going on. My dad said, "That’s one," and I still didn’t let that go.

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