“Did you turn it all the way off?”

Your son told you that the faucet is dripping. You want to know whether it's a problem with the faucet, or just that your son didn't completely turn it off.

Did you turn it all the way off?

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“Mom, the faucet's dripping.”

Your son notices that there's water dripping into the sink in the kitchen. He tells you:

Mom, the faucet's dripping.

Mom

"Mom" is the most common title for people to call their mothers.

There are other titles that are not quite as popular but used in different situations:

• "Mommy" is used mostly by very young children. After about 6-8 years old, it becomes "uncool" to call your mother "mommy".
• "Mother" is a word that we might use when talking about our moms in an adult-sounding way, but for most people it sounds too formal to use when talking to your mother.
• "Mama" is another more childish-sounding name. It's more popular in the South, though.
• "Ma" is a name that I associate with certain groups of people in the Northeast, like Irish- and Italian-American families.

Some people call their parents by their first names, but that's usually only after the children have grown up. It's also usually just for untraditional families.

faucet

The "faucet" is the thing that hangs over a sink, which water comes out of. The part that you turn is called a "handle" or "faucet handle".

(something) is dripping

A tiny ball of falling liquid is a "drop". When drops of liquid are falling out of something, you say that it is "dripping".

The words that appear most often with "drip" or "dripping" are:

• dripping water
• blood dripping
• drip down
• drip onto (something)
• sweat dripping
• dripping rain