{"id":31001,"date":"2014-04-23T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=31001"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:14:41","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-named-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-named-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Who named your mom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/dear-mom-arts-and-crafts-book?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24979_zoom1-548x548.jpg\" alt=\"Dear Mom Arts &amp; Crafts Book | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24979_zoom1-548x548.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24979_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24979_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24979_zoom1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a>You did. Or at least, you and billions of other babies around the world and across time. \u201cMa\u201d is one of the earliest vocalized sounds a baby makes on its way to learning speech, and it requires lip movement similar to that of nursing. It\u2019s no wonder, then, that most languages have some variation on the M sound in their words for \u201cmother\u201d: mam\u00e1 (Spanish), maminka (Czech), eomma (Korean), umama (Zulu), etc. The name \u201cDad\u201d is likely also derived from baby talk, but arrives in second place. The D sound is known as a \u201cdental consonant\u201d, is difficult to form until the baby\u2019s upper front teeth have grown in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/dear-mom-arts-and-crafts-book?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Mom Arts and Crafts Book, $9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You did. Or at least, you and billions of other babies around the world and across time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":31004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}