pa-pa

Bob Hicok: “O my pa-pa” first appeared in Poetry and Poetry Daily.

The Best American Poetry 2008 2008

In the seventeenth month there was a considerable advance in the use of sign-language (such as bringing a hat to the nurse as a request to go out), but still no words were spoken save _ma-ma, pa-pa_, etc. In the twentieth month the child could first repeat words of two unlike syllables.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

"Pa-pa, pa-pa," I still hear his faint, hesitating voice, I can still see his two coral lips open and close.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

It is very sweet, the first lisping utterance of a child, and admirably chosen to move -- the "pa-pa" the little creature first murmurs.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

His pa-pa had thought that Jo-ey might go to school dur-ing the sum-mer, but when the doc-tor heard of it he said no.

Monkey Jack and Other Stories

Your fagot-knife against my little flute that sings pa-pa!

The Maids of Paradise 1899

But as he mentally rehearsed the meeting with his mother he clearly felt with the terror of a man who is beginning to lose his reason and who realizes it, that this old woman in the black little kerchief was only an artificial, mechanical puppet, of the kind that can say "pa-pa," "ma-ma," but somewhat better constructed.

Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

Then the painful experience of discipline and punishment reveals the same motherly figure in the new light of a protector and comforter, and it learns to contrast her with the stern persons whom she has taught it to call pa-pa and ma-ma.

Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

I prays for mam-ma -- God take care of her, and pa-pa too.

Bad Hugh Mary Jane Holmes 1866

The old man, and Bob, and Sam, got in-to the cot; and as Bob saw his pa-pa so ill, and the cut on his leg so red, he ran to his bed, and lay on it in woe, and did ask GOD not to let his pa-pa die.

The Child's First Book. By Campbell and Dunn. Approved by the Education Association of Virginia Through Their Committee. William A. Campbell 1864