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Post by justme on Jun 28, 2016 22:27:07 GMT -5
My grandmothers were grandma close and grandma far. We usually just used grandma in person, but sometimes we'd add the close or far.
We were at an art gallery when I was a wee thing and apparently said grandma far! And the artist turns to my mom and asks did she just say grandma fart?
So, uh, yea she could be stuck with an unimaginative name that sounds like fart in younger kid speak....
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 28, 2016 22:27:52 GMT -5
I got nothin'. Nothing that hasn't already been said. Good luck!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 22:29:26 GMT -5
My Mom was suppose to be Grandma, but my daughter couldn't say it I guess. It came out MeMa (NOT MeMaw) and it stuck. DD is the oldest grandchild and every child that came after her calls my Mom MeMa. I'm Nana. I won't answer anyone that refers to me as "Grandma". So of course people call me that to tease (irritate) me. The 2yo calls me MyNana.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 22:30:16 GMT -5
Ha Ha... not a grandma thing, but my daughter has two friends named Tara. One goes to Saturday Art Class and one to Sunday, so the are Saturday Tara and Sunday Tara. It gets complicated with i talk to Saturday Tara's Mom and Sunday Tara's Mom... (I suck at names.)
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 28, 2016 22:30:39 GMT -5
My maternal grandmother was Mimi. My paternal grandmother was Grandma Alice. My children call my mother Grammy. They called XH's mother Grandma. My MIL is Fram. My niece and nephew call their other grandmother Gigi.
I was called Gigi as a child; I didn't realize it was also a grandmother nick name until about ten years ago.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 28, 2016 22:32:33 GMT -5
There are two Natalies at DD's dance class. One is Nice Natalie and the other is Mean Natalie.
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Post by emma1420 on Jun 28, 2016 22:36:51 GMT -5
I called my grandmothers grandma and nan.
My mother goes by Grandmeremere first name. Luckily, her granddaughter has only seen her once, so that name almost never gets used.
my step-mom is called Granny first name (my dad is called LaLa). and my nieces great grandmothers are called Granny and Nooney. I like Nooney. I don't think it sounds old. My step-mom wanted to be called Grandma not Granny, but she got called the name my niece made up for her.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jun 28, 2016 23:02:26 GMT -5
My grandmother hated being called grandma. She'd yell at me if we were in public and I called out to her - Grandma! She'd act like she didn't know who I was when I'd forget and then hiss at me privately not to call her that as "She knows people in town and they thought she was much younger (since my uncle is only one year older than me)!". Shallow bitch. She turns 96? this Sept. and now doesn't mind being called Grandma. Now I know where my mom got her many issues. True story - When I was 18 mom wanted me to take her out bar hopping with me. But she'd make me introduce her as Elaine so people didn't know how old she was. So I did. But after a couple of drinks it went like this: Hi Randy. This is Elaine. Mom - this is Randy. Oops! I suck at lying but we'd laugh about that for years after. So having said all of this I'd want to be called Head Bitch or Queeny if I was a grandma. Queeny was my nick name from mom when I was a teen because I slept so much. I went to school full time, worked full time and had undiagnosed Grave's disease. But it suits me since I still sleep until noon and don't work or go to school! I love Mimi, Noni or Nooni. They sound cute and easy to say for the little ones.
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Post by msventoux on Jun 28, 2016 23:14:23 GMT -5
My maternal grandmother was Grandma. My paternal grandmother was Grandma <Last name>. We didn't like her much, so no cutesy names for her. Both grandfathers were called Grandpa <First name>.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 28, 2016 23:38:22 GMT -5
My son called my mom Gramma and my ex's mom "Daddy's Gramma". We didn't teach him that, he just came up with it. She was around 45, and asked us to correct him to "Daddy's mom" at the very least. She was awful, so I thought it was pretty funny myself. I love the word Babushka, maybe my son will marry a Russian/Polish girl Some day, I'll be Babushka, but not yet. I'm not chomping at the bit.
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Post by tallguy on Jun 29, 2016 0:12:44 GMT -5
It predates me, so I don't know when or how it started, but my wife's daughter called her grandmother (wife's mother) Grandma (Grandma's dog's name.) My mother was either Gramma by my son or Grandma (last name) by my step-daughter. My grandmother was called Nana by all the kids. What do you think about Grandma Fang or Grandma Spike? Grandma Rover?
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Post by mamasita99 on Jun 29, 2016 6:01:39 GMT -5
My son called my mom Gramma and my ex's mom "Daddy's Gramma". We didn't teach him that, he just came up with it. She was around 45, and asked us to correct him to "Daddy's mom" at the very least. She was awful, so I thought it was pretty funny myself. I love the word Babushka, maybe my son will marry a Russian/Polish girl When I used to visit my "grama" and "grampa" in Wisconsin, I remember seeing lots of old ladies with scarves wrapped over the hair and tied under the chin. My grama called the scarves "babushkas". Now it makes sense, cute!
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Post by spartan7886 on Jun 29, 2016 7:47:45 GMT -5
I had Grandma and Pop on my dad's side and Mamaw and Papaw on my mom's side. My great grandmother (Grandma's mom) was Meemaw. My parents have decided on Gran and Grandaddy, and the in-laws are MiMi and PawPaw. Of course DD is the first grandchild on both sides and she can't talk yet, so who knows if it will stay that way.
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Post by Waffle on Jun 29, 2016 8:09:41 GMT -5
No Grandma help here. But this reminds me of one of my aunts. She's only 5 years older than I am and when we were younger she was terrified that someone would think she was old enough to be my mother. So, I started introducing her as my mother's much much much much much younger sister.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 29, 2016 8:26:18 GMT -5
My mother is grandma. MIL is "Other Grandma". That happened because DH would announce we were going to "grandma and grandpa's house" and Gwen would start heading across the street. Then she'd have a fit when I picked her up to put her in the car because she thought I wasn't letting her visit "grandma and grandpa".
So we started saying "No your OTHER grandma and grandpa!" and it just stuck. My MIL keeps trying to get Gwen to call her "Nana" but no luck.
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Post by andi9899 on Jun 29, 2016 8:41:01 GMT -5
There are two Natalies at DD's dance class. One is Nice Natalie and the other is Mean Natalie. I work with a girl named Andrea, so we've just decided my name is Andi at work. I always tell her I'm good Andrea and she's bad Andrea. I also worked with a girl named Andrea at a different job and she was so stupid. People would call me Andrea and call her Dumb Andrea behind her back. I kinda felt sorry for that girl.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jun 29, 2016 8:41:08 GMT -5
My mom was babcia (pronounced bop-cha), but neice #4 couldn't say it right, so is now ba-chee.
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Post by gs11rmb on Jun 29, 2016 9:07:55 GMT -5
I work with a girl named Andrea, so we've just decided my name is Andi at work. I always tell her I'm good Andrea and she's bad Andrea. I also worked with a girl named Andrea at a different job and she was so stupid. People would call me Andrea and call her Dumb Andrea behind her back. I kinda felt sorry for that girl. I grew up in Scotland where Andrea was only pronounced one way (An-dree-a). It through me for a loop when I moved to the US and found multiple pronunciations. The name actually stress me out and I've been known to describe people (not to their faces) as "An-dree-a but not An-dree-a" because I can't remember how they like it pronounced .
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 29, 2016 9:13:37 GMT -5
My wife is Baba. All the grandmothers on her side are Baba, Russian for grandmother. We wondered what the boys would call her mother. Big Baba came up.
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Post by suesinfl on Jun 29, 2016 9:19:17 GMT -5
I'm grandma, not my first choice or second. Oldest DDs MIL and 2 GMILs took the names I wanted. But in the end it really doesn't matter he knows who I am.
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Post by Apple on Jun 29, 2016 11:19:32 GMT -5
My son called my mom Gramma and my ex's mom "Daddy's Gramma". We didn't teach him that, he just came up with it. She was around 45, and asked us to correct him to "Daddy's mom" at the very least. She was awful, so I thought it was pretty funny myself. I love the word Babushka, maybe my son will marry a Russian/Polish girl When I used to visit my "grama" and "grampa" in Wisconsin, I remember seeing lots of old ladies with scarves wrapped over the hair and tied under the chin. My grama called the scarves "babushkas". Now it makes sense, cute! Yep It's the name for the scarf, but also a little old lady or gramma. Off topic, but I used to drape a sock on my dogs head, smoosh her face, and call her my little babushka. She tolerated me, lol.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 29, 2016 11:44:57 GMT -5
German, Belgian, and Dutch I chose it since the other grandma is not from either of those countries (while I am), so she would have her pick.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 29, 2016 12:09:13 GMT -5
When I used to visit my "grama" and "grampa" in Wisconsin, I remember seeing lots of old ladies with scarves wrapped over the hair and tied under the chin. My grama called the scarves "babushkas". Now it makes sense, cute! Yep It's the name for the scarf, but also a little old lady or gramma. Off topic, but I used to drape a sock on my dogs head, smoosh her face, and call her my little babushka. She tolerated me, lol. I think the English call the scarf a babushka, but Russians call it a "plaTOK". I've never heard a Russian call it a babushka.
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Post by swamp on Jun 29, 2016 12:12:26 GMT -5
my mom is Babki, (sp?) It's Polish for grandma. We don't have a hint of Polish in us.
My sister had a Polish nanny when her kids were little. My mom didn't want to be called Gramma. They just adopted the Anglicized version of what the nanny called my mother.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 29, 2016 13:33:33 GMT -5
I just want to be Grandma (my granddaughter was just starting to say a lot of words last I saw her but hadn't gotten to "Grandma" yet.) Definitely nothing so babyish and silly (MeeMaw, Nanny) it will sound weird when she uses it at age 18. Pfft! I had a MeeMaw and a MawMaw, I'm 41 and still use those terms when speaking about/to them. My mom is Mimi, my MIL is Momo. I have friends who are Gigi. I have cousins who called their grandmother Bamba. My great aunt's grandchildren call her Rena, her 1st granddaughter wanted to call her ballerina, and it got shortened.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 29, 2016 13:41:20 GMT -5
Oh! There's also Garmy & Gammy in the family tree.
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Post by garion2003 on Jun 29, 2016 13:51:22 GMT -5
To get her goat you can call her 'Granny"!
Or you go in another Downton Abbey direction and call her "grand ma MAH".
I had close and far grandmothers too, but we used to call them both "Grammie" So sometimes we'd need to use last name, so they became Grammie Smith and Grammie Jones.
Then on one visit Grammie Far that included a lot of family, my brother and I realized my cousins from Texas called her "GrandMawh". So we latched onto to that, but it became new England-cized to "grandma".
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 29, 2016 14:05:44 GMT -5
My dad was "Noonie " to his niece and nephews. Guess his name was hard for them to pronounce. DD called her dad's mom Bammi so it stuck for everyone.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 14:25:11 GMT -5
Grammy and Grampy - paternal side. Great-grandparents were great grammy last name and great grampy last name.
Grandfather and Diana (step-grandmother)- maternal side. Mother died when my mom was 18 so never met her. That side of the family were never really the warmest and fuzziest people I ever heard of, only knew 2 aunts out of 3. Only thing I know for a fact is alcoholism runs rampant in that side. Joy.
MIL is Grammy as well. One of DH's grandmother's was Nana and the other was Grandma. That's all I know.
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Post by shanendoah on Jun 29, 2016 15:08:49 GMT -5
My grandparents were Nana/Papa and Grandma/Grandpa My mom is Grandma *first name* My dad and step-mom are Pa and Gabby
One of my dad's cousins is call "Leelee" by her grandkids (her name is Lee).
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