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What do your children call their grandparents?

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Thelittleredhead · 03/05/2016 19:51

My parents are currently engaged in a good natured argument about what their "grandparent" names will be- seeing as this is their first time.

Just out of interest (read; nosiness) what are your parents' grandparent names? I'd love to hear any unusual ones :)

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Dinosaursdontgrowontrees · 03/05/2016 19:54

Not unusual in afraid..
My parents are nanny and grandad
Dh parents are granny and grandpa
They chose their names themselves when dd was born.

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TheLadyWithTheYellowHat · 03/05/2016 19:56

My mum and dad are grandma and opa (German born)
Dp mum and dad are nana and grandad

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bumpingalong9386 · 03/05/2016 19:57

Nana & Papa
Nan & Grandad

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MyBreadIsEggy · 03/05/2016 19:57

My parents are Babcia (grandma) and Dziadunio (grandpa) - we are originally from Poland.
DH's mum is Yāy (grandma) - originally from Thailand.
DH's dad is Grandad.

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dottyaboutstripes · 03/05/2016 19:58

PIL are Grandma and Grandad
My parents Granny and Grampy

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marmitecrumpets · 03/05/2016 19:59

Nanny
Pops

Great Nanna
Pappy

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libellule1 · 03/05/2016 20:02

Nanna and PaPa
Granny (insert first name) and Pa (insert first name). eg Granny Jen IYKWIM

I love Nonna for a grandmother. Also worth noting that whatever the first grandchild can actually pronounce as a little one might stick forever.

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PortiaCastis · 03/05/2016 20:02

My Mum is Gamma because dd couldn't say Grandma when she was tiny and Gamma sort of stuck
My Dad is Gandy for the same reason

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StinkyMcgrinky · 03/05/2016 20:03

PIL are Nanan first name and grandad first name

My Dad is grandad first name

My grandparents are Old Nanan and Grandad

I can see now that we may have been better having different names for all Hmm

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1lov3comps · 03/05/2016 20:03

My parents are nana and grandad jim.
DHs parents are granny and grandad David.
The names with the grandads came abou because when dd was born, she also had 3 great grandmothers and 2 great grandfathers and so they all had some add-on to help us tell them apart when talking about them and the grandads got included in the add on process Grin

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Mooey89 · 03/05/2016 20:05

My mum and dad are nanny and Grandad.
My PiL's are Grandpa and 'dear' (also, Granny, but DS heard FIL address granny as dear for so long it's stuck!)

My Grandmother is GG (great- grandmother)

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littlepooch · 03/05/2016 20:06

My parents are grandpa and grandma.
Mil is nanny.

Well at least that's what they chosen, DD is only 5 months so goodness knows what she might end up calling them when she starts chattering :)

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Tanito279 · 03/05/2016 20:06

Nanny and Pop-pops

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JessieMcJessie · 03/05/2016 20:08

Odd that "Nanny" is not considered unusual. "Nana" And "Nan" I am familiar with but I hadn't heard of "Nanny". If I heard a kid talking about Nanny I'd think they were very posh indeed and talking about the hired help!

I grew up with Granny and Papa (pronounced "PA-pa", not "pa-PA") and we distinguished with first names so Granny Jean and Papa Jimmy etc. Papa is very Scottish and not used much in England.

My husband has a "Farmor" which is Norwegian for "father's mother". The full set is Farmor, Farfar, Morfar and Mormor, which I think is fab.

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Natsku · 03/05/2016 20:08

They have the Finnish version of the grandparent names

My mum is Mummi
My dad is Pappa (even though he's not Finnish, he just insisted on that being the name)

Dad's dad is Vaari
Dad's step-mum is just called by her name

Step-dad's dad is called by his nickname
She still hasn't really settled on a name for step-dad's mum, who has the same name as her
Step-dad's grandma is Mummo

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BadDoGooder · 03/05/2016 20:09

My DM is Nanny, her partner is Nanny (name)
My DF is (outing myself slightly!) Gub Gubs (he couldn't say "Grandad" when v young, that version stuck!)

MiL is Granny

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TeacupDrama · 03/05/2016 20:09

My parents are grandma and grandpa as that is what they were called by my sisters children as their other GP's were granny and grandad

DH's mother is granny

If it's a first grandchild there is some choice but if they are called x and y by 4 pre existing grandchildren your going to have to stick with x and y whatever your preference, if one set of parents are already x and y because of above but other GP are new, l would think its generally best if not called x and y but some other variant

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Malvolia · 03/05/2016 20:09

Don't bother with pre-planning based on my experience. After much discussion about who was going to be what, from the moment DS could talk he called all four grandparents by their first names.

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Ilovewillow · 03/05/2016 20:14

Grandma and grandpa sweetie pie because they used to call my daughter sweetie pie and grandma and grandpa noodle! Noodle because my daughter used to call them G&G dog (they have a dog) and it sounded a bit rude so noodle was the first word we came up with. She is now 7 and my son is 2 and it has stuck!

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Thelittleredhead · 03/05/2016 20:14

Ha, this is a lovely thread- thanks for your answers.

My own grandparents were Nanny & Grandad, and Granny & Grandpa. But my mum wants to be Nanny (as her mum was) and my dad's being really snobby about it Grin.

He wants to be Opa but mum says he's being pretentious, seeing as he isn't actually German!

I can see this going on hilariously for some time.

Dad's grandfather was Popeye, which i think is adorable.

But yeah- in reality my child will probably end up choosing a name for them anyway (and dictating for all future grandchildren, mwahaha)

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winchester1 · 03/05/2016 20:20

Farmor (OH mum - Swedish for fathers mum) although the toddler says dadam which I think mean daddy's mum and he translating it for me.
Sadly we don't have any others.

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MistressoftheYoniverse · 03/05/2016 20:25

DH Parents :

Grandpa & Grandma Vicky

My Parents:

Grandad & Gram

My Grandmother

Granny Liz

My Great Grandmother

Mama

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Playduh · 03/05/2016 20:28

We have a nanny, a nana, a grandma and a papa.

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delilabell · 03/05/2016 20:29

Nanny and grandad (first nam) for dh's mom and step dad.
My mom is grandma. My dad is grandma (first name) it's what ds called him and it's just stuck!

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