Since I didn't want to ambuse Father Steve's oompah thread I thought I should start an other one...

In French we call our grandparents, Grand-père et Grand-mère (Grandfather and Grandmother) when you are a bit older and when being a bit formal. Grand-papa et Grand-maman (Granddaddy and Grandmommy) is used by kiddies and when speaking to kiddies.

We tack on the family name, i.e. Grand-maman Beaupré, if a situation arises where there can be a confusion about which grandparent you are talking about.

In some circumstances, some grandparents get a nickname (my grandmothers were called Mamie and Granny) but generally, most are called by the terms listed above.

I know that the Québec Italians call their grandparents Nono* (grandfather) and Nona (grandmother).

I know we've discussed something like this in the past, but since we have a wider variety of posters now, I'd like to know what terms are used to describe grandparents in your neck of the woods.


* unfortunately Nono in French means idiot.