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t’s in almost every pop song, but I have never heard anyone call the person dearest to them “Baby”. That said, I don’t live in Britain or the US. My father sometimes called my mother “Darling” and I have often heard “My dear” or just “Dear”.I remember male friends using it affectionately in the US, as in: “Get your ass up to the bar and get those beers in, Pete Baby!”It’s quite simple when you think about it.
It’s now too odd to start. It’s Hun, Babe, Baby and a few other choice pet names.In Australia, it is not uncommon for a woman’s profile on internet dating sites to read something like: “I don’t answer to Babe, Hun, Darl or Love.” For some men here, it is like Mate – used when you cannot remember their name.South Africans do this quite a lot. I, in a more promiscuous period of my life, called all my partners Baby so as to not confuse their names at the wrong moment.
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