{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"This Is Where the Word ‘Dad’ Comes From","description":"Of all the words we use our fathers—from pappy to old man—the most common American appellation is three little letters: dad. And with Father's Day arriving this weekend, you may be wondering where that familiar word comes from.\n\nThe leading hypothesis is: babies.\n\n“There’s unusual similarity in the words for mothers and fathers throughout the world,” says the Oxford English Dictionary’s Katherine Martin.","author_name":"TIME's Top Stories","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/3380207-time-s-top-stories","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/22623693/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}