In the chaos of airport retail Jake's mother refers to her son as "my baby."

Michael was considered the least gifted of the seven children and his mother referred to him as "stupid."

Billy's mother refers to him in the film as a "hopeless case".

She noticed her mother had referred to Walker by his Christian name.

There was wide speculation that his own mother had referred to him as "sir."

And unlike them, my mother did not refer to her as "the girl."

"It is those to whom my mother refers as the gringos that I write," he says.

At least, that's how his mother had referred to it.

Her mother did not refer to him at all and insisted that she read two chapters instead of the more usual one.

Meredith had never heard her mother referred to as Maggie.