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ouchjars
492 days ago
-o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo".
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mjd
492 days ago
My own kiddo, at the age of two or three, decided that -o was a productive suffix and started calling me and her mother "Daddo" and "Mommo".
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o11c
492 days ago
I don't think that's actually a diminutive (meaning shifts to add smallness or endearment), just a colloquializer (meaning doesn't change, just becomes less formal; dialects may adopt a particular informal word as standard).
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wink
492 days ago
not sure psycho counts, as it works in every language that uses the greek? latin? base.
Also I kinda liked learning about smoko, even as a non-smoker.
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