Do some British people still refer to their parents as "Mater" and "Pater"?

2021-04-13 5:10 am
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And obviously, people would not use it "humorously" if people hadn't used it before!  Like now in Russia, it's humorous or an insult to call somebody "comrade."

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2021-04-13 7:43 pm
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Only by way of a joke.  A few very upper-class people may have done so 50 or more years ago, but certainly not since then.
2021-04-13 7:29 pm
I never did. That would have been known as 'being affected' down our way.
2021-04-13 11:23 pm
I live in the UL and am British. No, I know of no one who addresses their parents in Latin nor have I heard of any doing it. I have no idea how you got the idea we do this. Haec inepta quaestio est.
2021-04-15 4:35 am
Of course not, except as a joke. It wasn't common years ago either, even among the upper class.
2021-04-14 6:31 am
There may still be a handful of such people. But it's certainly not at all common any  more - not for the last 100 years.
2021-04-14 5:38 am
Actually I have heard this in period movies and read it in British movies.  In aristocratic families only.  It seems to have been done still in the 1950s, but even that is a long time ago.  So I was just wondering.
2021-04-13 5:32 pm
Maybe in some unworldly upper-class families in the boondocks, or used humorously.
2021-04-13 5:14 am
Nobody has ever said that seriously!  I say pater quite often.  It's always tongue in cheek.  Yes, I did go to a boarding grammar school (that's like a prep school in USian).
2021-04-13 7:05 am
Only in paternity and maternity.
2021-04-13 5:32 am
I’m British and have never heard of that 


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