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#51416 01/02/02 01:07 PM
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I have been Nana -- since i became a grandmother 15 months ago.

Nana is what i (we) called our grandmother. (Mother's mother)

My kids had Nana (my mother,) grammy (great grammy, acutally) Father's matertal and grandma.(father's mother)


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Congrats, Angel! I always used Grandmom and Grandpop. But, for some reason, my nieces took to calling my parents Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop, which is cute and age-neutral to boot!


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Just a quick thank you to all for your insightful posts. When the baby is born, (due any day now), I will let you all know. And we will decide what this first time grandma, or nanny, or tutu, or whatever! will be called.


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As our dear Satin just became one I recall recently catching myself pronouncing it as 'Gramma', which admitedly comes from slurring Grandma and Marie into Grammarie, yet I believe it has 'always' been that way... wahdeyah say, sis?

C'mon... who says Grand-pa. It's 'Grampa'.

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My first grandchild is due any day now! And I'm looking for a name for myself other than 'granny'.

Getting back to the original question/search for a more elegant name than Granny -- I offer the appellation chosen by my son's mother-in-law (sorry, English just doesn't have a word for my relationship to her, though some other languages do): Gigi, as in the French. It's supposed to be G for Grandma, twice.

Actually, I don't think much of it myself, but then, nobody asked me. Better for Great-Grandmother, maybe?


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One of mine is part Greek. We call her Yaya.


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Oma and opa are also used here in Indonesia as an informal term for addressing one's grandmother and grandfather. The normal words are nenek and kakek, which can also mean old woman and old man, respectively.

When growing up, I used nanny and grandad (plus surname when differentiation was necessary).


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It's easy when you have grandparents who are from two different cultures. My Italian (Sardinian) grandparents were Nonno and Nonna, and my Ukrainian grandparents would have been Baba and Dyido (hard to spell the pronunciation). However I never knew my Ukrainian grandparents, because they are both long dead, and my Sardinian grandparents lived very far away. Actually, I am completely without grandparents now, since my last surviving grandparent, Nonno, died last fall.

On a brighter note, due to my lack of locally available grandparents, I borrowed a great-great aunt and uncle, who happened to be close to our family, and called them Gramma and Grampa. They fit the role quite well. My "Gramma" is now 96 years old and until last year or so, was going to aerobics classes three times a week at her seniors' residence! About six years ago, when she was still living in her 12th floor apartment, she walked up to her apartment one day when the elevator was broken. (Okay, she rested every few floors - but still!)


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But not because grandfather always said:"No, No!"


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