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  • When you're Irish the two, talking and writing, are supposed to come easy, taken with the mammy's milk or some such.

    Confessions of an I.R.A. Terrorist 2010

  • You open up a whole can of whoop ass when you decide to categorize Twilight fans! books are aimed for that age level true but books nowadays are read by anyone and any age and knowing Twilights huge fan base * to which you so kindly invited us means that such a huge fan base is of course filled with plenty of baby boomers their kids, Daddys and yes some grandpappys/mammy's.

    Rumor: Stephenie Meyer's New Moon Already In Development « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • It was ever his mammy's wish to have a priest in the family and with her now close to dying from an over-affinity with Paddy's eyewater, Seamais is inclined to indulge her.

    Priest in Kilvarnet 2010

  • Not only do mammy's click in, but a yearly colonoscopy doesn't sound like a day at the beach either.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Robyn 2009

  • He fancied himself a musicologist and had taken down some of the "slave tunes" he learned as a child at his mammy's knee.

    Phillip Kurian II 2004

  • [Rent, lease, or own your home?] nope, i live in my mammy's.

    writerchic88 Diary Entry writerchic88 2004

  • Ray had grasped the opportunity of broadening his horizons through higher education the way most good Scots lads did, by staying home at his mammy's and commuting to the nearest uni on a daily basis.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • "I'll make this tree bow down, bow down, I'll take my mammy's part"

    The Cherry Tree (3) 1997

  • It's surprising, sir, so it is, what you learn at your mammy's knee. '

    Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

  • I'm having a new shirt made out of daddy's old one, and daddy's having a new shirt made out of the old sheet, and mammy's making a new sheet out of the old table-cloth. '

    Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins

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