i don't care what you say ...you do not say you are fond of your child .its a matter of fact term .....
or are you saying ..kmcc ...looks up the meaning of love in the Oxford dictionary.... 
I sincerely doubt that Dr McCann requires to look up a dictionary to find words to express herself, she speaks eloquently enough.
What would you have made of it had she used a colloquial expression used frequently in my neck of the woods which expresses the deepest love and affection ... even fondness ...
quote I love the very bones of (name as applicable)
end quoteNow there is one to be playing with.
Whichever wording Dr McCann cares to use to illustrate her love for her children is inconsequential in my opinion.
The English language is no more difficult than Finnish or even Portuguese which seems to be particularly difficult to translate accurately.
It is the failure by English speakers to understand fairly innocuous expressions such as the belief that Madeleine has 'come to no harm' to mean that she has not died that I find odd. Just a euphemism and we all use them.
Even journalists who make their living as wordsmiths use them.
**snip
To me, the McCanns are genuine people in the grip of despair – the accusations against them are ludicrous and a cruel distraction from the search for their daughter.
That’s why I put the quotation marks around the word "death" at the top of the article.
Madeleine may be dead, it may even be more likely she is dead, but nobody knows for sure. Nobody, not even the PJ, as we will see, can produce any persuasive evidence that she has come to harm.
David James Smith December 16, 2007
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Kate and Gerry McCann: Beyond the smears Timesonline
