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did your Dad used to call your Mum 'Duck' mine did!!

It always used to be 'Put the kettle on, Duck' ;-))

doesn't it depend on where abouts you come from?

Probably Dawn, My son, when he was quite small, wrote in his school news book that he had been to see Granddad and Duck, the teacher thought my Dad owned a farm!!!! ;-))

Didder, my little dog is looking worried, I have just spluttered drink every where laughing at that ;-))

my mum called me (andstill does) Chick, Grandad used to call me Pidgeon........

My Mum and Dad didnt as they come from Lancashire so they called me Love, but my Hubby calls me Duck, I had never heard it as a pet name before I moved to Stoke on Trent. He also calls me Pidge aswell, not unless he meant podge and I heard him wrong! Marie: )

Well Didder, I am now licking the keyboard ;-)) Marie I am sure it wasn't Podge he called you, it seems Teri's Granddad uses Pidgeon as well ;-))

In certain areas of Bucks they use this term - always hated it LOL

My Dad used to put the ketle on himself but he used to say to Mum 'have you had a nice day duck'. Just realised, he must have been the first of the 'new men':)) They both called me darling though.

My Grandad used to call me Duck. Haven't been called it since he died in 1983. Brings a lump to my throat when I hear it . xx (Grandad was a South Londoner)

dad would say , wanna cuppa tea love, hubby calls me duck, and says put kettle on duck, i usually say ,'i would but it wont suit me,'

Muffy, he was probably the same age group as my Dad, Dad died in 1999, so I am feeling quite nostalgic remembering it ;-))

My dad came from Bucks and often used the word duck. He also used to write in cards to my mum, my old Dutch, which I suppose was an abbrieviation for the word Duchess.

Oh how great to hear that term again. My grandparents called each other that... Everytime I hear it I can see my nans smiling face...ahh the memories Kila Smiler xxx :>)))))

Petunia Old Dutch comes from Duchess of Fife, rhyming slang for wife, but why I am not sure Had you come across this Herman's Hermits song? I've got a pal, a regular out an' outer. She's a dear old gal, an' I'll tell you all about 'er; It's forty years since fust we met, Her hair was then as black as jet. It's whiter now, but she don't fret Not my old gal. We've been together now for forty years An' it don't seem a day too much. There ain't a lady living in the land As I'd swap for me dear old Dutch. No, there ain't a lady living in the land As I'd swap for me dear old Dutch.

MY grandad used to call me moo!!

When I was Little my grandad called me paddy because of my temper.. Oh look Michaela's having another paddy...:>))) I'm the essence of sweet now. Kila

When I was little my dad called me chick (he is from Sale in Cheshire/Manchester area). He still calls me it now sometimes but moreso to my son these days. My mam was from North Yorkshire and she called me 'unny bairn. Dianne xx

Has anyone else used the expression 'Duck'? ;-))