I agree with your findings that sport and champ can be pejorative or at least not-endearing, but kiddo rarely is. The first two are also, in my opinion, losing their foothold in the lexicon of american dads. Dads' corner - a corner for many fathers a useful comparison is father's day (or mother's day).

I often see replace with and replace by used interchangeably, but this doesn't sound right to me: I replaced that component by this one. I would use with in such a sentence. By only seems Your father's father is called your grand-father, yet your father's uncle is typically called your great-uncle (or so it seems with anybody i converse with). Why the inconsistency? When you are using the word dad to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized.

Your father's father is called your grand-father, yet your father's uncle is typically called your great-uncle (or so it seems with anybody i converse with). Why the inconsistency? When you are using the word dad to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized. When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common …