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Personally I've never cared for he 'Y' at the end of that particular term of endearment (mommy or daddy). My given name is William, but have always gone by Bill. As a young child everyone in my family called me Billy, and I hated it. I was well into my teens before I could get them to stop calling me that. As for my father, I'm sure I called him Daddy as a very young child, but by the time I was 8 yrs old, when he died, I was calling him Dad. There's certainly nothing wrong with Daddy or Mommy if that's what one is comfortable with. It's what's in your heart that really counts. Even though I didn't like it, I would gladly have called my father Daddy if I could have had him around longer.
We never did Mom and Dad.
Because my mother died when my sisters and I were young we never got past the stage of calling her mommy. When we talk about her nowadays, we refer to her as momma.
My father, "daddy", became "Pop" as we grew older and stayed that way till his death. My older brothers often referred to him as "the old man" but they didn't call him that.
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I wish I could have my dad back so I could call him "Daddy."
