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When my mother was alive, she was called "Grandma". But my father never wanted to be called "Grandpa". He said it made him feel old. So he came up with "Poppy" and all the grandkids call him that.
When my oldest was little we called my mother Grandma. As he began talking he kept calling her Nana and it took. She swears it was because she always had and offered him bananas at her house! My Dad is Papa.
My favorite has always been my MIL and FIL who are Grammy and Grandaddy. When the kids were little it always came out Gammy and GanDaddy. So cute.
My husband calls his grandmother Big Momma. God forbid!
I know that in Scottish gaelic, grandmother is Seanmhair but I don't know how to pronounce it. I am a soon to be grandmother and want to use the name but am not sure how to properly prounounce it. Can anyone help Please.
I have a Friend thats mother is Scottish I will get in touch with her and see if she can tell me.
It maybe tomorrow evening but I will get back with you.
My older daughter, now almost 6, was unable to say grandma correctlywhen she was learning to talk. It came out as Wanna. So we started calling the grandmas Wanna. To differentiate them, one became Wanna Jo and one became Wanna Jean. Any other ladies of a grandmotherly age in their lives are Wanna Bea .
Unfortunately, both my DH's dad and my dad died prior to our children entering our lives. In keeping with the name Wanna, we refer to the grandpas as Wampa Jim and Wampa Doug.
I have always been "Mom" Mommy"...... so when grandson calls out "Mom", we both answer and then he has to decide---no not that mommy, that mommy..... lol I remember a while back when my son (Uncle Robbie) was having a discussion with grandson and trying to explain, "no, that's MY mom. My sister is your mom and that is her mom too.....GS said, NO, that's MY mom.....they went back and forth a few times, until GS said with a sigh, "OK, Well, she is just ALL our mom!!.
He calls the other grandmother "mom" too. LOL
Have no idea why he stuck with Mom for all three of us...
Grandpa was "papa" for a long time, but now he is Grandpa.
I am of Swedish extraction on my father's side. I called my fathers parents Far-Mor and Far Far. Father's mother, father's father, respectively.
My grandmother on my mother's side was Scotch Irish she was dead before I was born. My maternal grandfather wanted to be called "Bub". He was also Scotch Irish and English.
I have a granddaughter. I am also Bub. My wife is Nana.
My two-year-old grandson has trouble pronouncing his "N's". He pronounces them as "D's". For example, "No" is "Do". His "nose" is a "dose". I'm "Nanny", but he pronounces it, "Daddy". He'll be running through the house yelling, "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" and it's ME he is calling, not his father. He still calls his father "DaDa". And he calls his great-grandmother (Nana) "DaDa". It is very confusing. My daughter, his mother, says, "Won't it be funny if he's still calling you "Daddy" when he's 30?"
My DH (his grandfather) is "Pappy". He has no trouble with that one.
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