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It's our old friend papa meaning 'father'



When staying in San Marino, my NZ co-worker heard his hosts address their father as "papa", and tried the same, only to be laughingly told that he had got the stress wrong, and had said "Pope", not "father". Fortunately, the family was not Catholic, so no religious sensibilities were hurt.


noho ora mai
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