# A poll: What do you and your SO call each other? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-what-do-you-and-your-so-call-each-other/411375 "2007-07-11T15:50:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-what-do-you-and-your-so-call-each-other/411375/41 "2007-07-12T01:52:24Z")
We both call each other Boo. As in, “Hey Boo, can you get me a drink?” “Sure Boo, here you go.” And we sign emails “Love, Boo” sometimes. It probably sounds like we’re rapping or something, because I hear “my boo” a lot in urban music these days. 😃 But I swear, we started saying it before we heard it anywhere else. Sometimes, I call him Love or Lovey. He doesn’t have a good nicknamey name, but I do, so he uses my shortened first name a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-what-do-you-and-your-so-call-each-other/411375/42 "2007-07-12T02:11:44Z")
“Spousal unit” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-what-do-you-and-your-so-call-each-other/411375/43 "2007-07-12T03:51:58Z")
Honey, sweetie, baby, gorgeous…occasionally we use real, actual first names. Sometimes “mommy” and “daddy” when the little one is around. Paulie Bear and Linnie The Pooh when we want to make friends vomit. ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-what-do-you-and-your-so-call-each-other/411375/44 "2007-07-12T03:53:06Z")
Me to her: Hunny Bunny, m’luv. and the Spanish Inquisition. Her to me: Usually, honey or Hunny Bunny. We generally only use first names when we’re angry or about to start a serious conversation. Peace - DESK ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-what-do-you-and-your-so-call-each-other/411375/45 "2007-07-12T18:55:24Z")
Babycakes. Which most often devolves to 'cakes. Or if we’re feeling sexy: spicecakes or hotcakes. Or if somebody is in a bad mood: crabcakes. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-what-do-you-and-your-so-call-each-other/411375/46 "2007-07-12T19:01:46Z")
[QUOTE=Millit the Frail] We both call each other Boo. As in, “Hey Boo, can you get me a drink?” “Sure Boo, here you go.” And we sign emails “Love, Boo” sometimes. It probably sounds like we’re rapping or something, because I hear “my boo” a lot in urban music these days. 😃 But I swear, we started saying it before we heard it anywhere else. [/QUOTE] That’s exactly what I was going to say. We’ve been calling each other Boo for more than a decade. Now it’s everywhere. Did we start something? We have been known to also call each other Nummy Muffin Cuckoo Butter, which may have come from MST3K. I can’t remember anymore. But Boo is our default nickname. I call my kids “Pooh” from Winnie-the-. Of course, they’re little boys, so they probably think it comes from poopy, which is their favorite word. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-what-do-you-and-your-so-call-each-other/411375.md?page=2)