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what Grandfather was calledYoYo? 
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Thanks to Father Steve - Greek Grandfather - Pa-Poo.
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A friends Swedish grandparents were
MorMor maternal grandmother
MorFar maternal grandfather
FarMor paternal grandmother
FarFar paternal grandfather.
a very organised and logical system.
Edit which was covered in the Oompahs thread but I just made it down that far. Boy you miss a lot when you don't check in for a while.
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In Portuguese, it's pretty tricky (from our point of view):
grandfather = avô (roughly, "ah-voh")
grandmother = avó (roughly, "ah-vah")
Kids' diminutives usually are the above minus the first syllable.
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As far as I can tell, no one has brought in French-Canadian yet, so:
Grandmother = Memre (pronounced mem-eh or mem-air)
Grandfather = Pepre (similar pronunciation)
(somebody please help me, I'm not quite sure of the spelling, as I usually only hear these names)
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Allo Gonold...yup, French Canadian was brought in right at the very first post - from me  Mémère and pépère are not very nice ways of calling your grandparents. It's rather negative, kinda like calling somebody an old fart. I can't vouch for that in the French communities in the western provinces, but in Québec, you don't call your grandparents that unless you want to insult them.
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belMarduk, Thanks for the correction, however, in French areas of New England, these names (as far as I can tell) are not meant to be derogatory...but Americans have always been strange, haven't they...
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No worries, gonoldothrond. Like English, French can vary greatly depending upon where you are. That's why I try to remember to add "Québec French" when I talk about meanings so as not to mislead anybody.
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I know I'm late to the party, but since my daughter has six living grandparents and three living greats, and unique names for all I thought it would be worth a post.
My mother and stepfather are Grand-Chris and Grand-Kev (their names are Christine and Kevin, and both think they are too young to have "real" grandparent names, like Grannie or Grampa).
My father and stepmother are Grandpa and Nana (pretty traditional).
My M-I-L and F-I-L are Grandma and Poppa.
My (maternal) grandparents are Gramie and Grandfather (That is what my brother and I have always called them, yes even as little kids we were required to call him "Grandfather". It seems very Victorian, but that's what we did).
My wife's grandmother is Gamma Lily (her name is Lillian, and she is Gamma Lily to all of her grandkids and great-grandkids, of which there are literally dozens.
We like the unique names so we don't have to resort to the "Grampa [surname] or Grampa [surname]?" confusion.
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