Page 11 | What is wrong with Granny?

Mimosa3andmore · 14/06/2025 21:44

I was 50 when my first grandchild was born. I was asked what I wanted to be called and opted for Granny. I'm definitely not elderly, frail or a fuddy duddy. I'm going to two rock gigs in the next few weeks and will definitely be in the most pit.

tachetastic · 14/06/2025 21:43

My four DCs have a Grandma and a Nanny.

The only time it becomes an issue is at Christmas etc when trying to find four different cards in each name can be a marathon (because neither the kids nor the grandmothers would accept cards addressed to Granny or Nana)!

🙄

wordler · 14/06/2025 21:42

Jane958 · 14/06/2025 21:22

Well, if Granny was good enough for the Queen?
I will leave it there.
I did ask my sister why she didn't go for "Nonna" the Italian version of granny and she thought for a minute and said she had forgotten it was an option.
She is one of those inverted snobs, though :-)

Are you Italian?

Justrestingmyeyes1 · 14/06/2025 21:42

My parents were nanny and grandad and PIL are grandma and grandpa. This is what they wanted to be called.
Both me and my DIL’s mum are Nanny to our grandson and my DH is grandad. He called my mum
’Nanny+her first name’ and calls my husbands parents granny and grandpa.
I love being a Nanny 😀

Nothankyov · 14/06/2025 21:41

I think that “plummeting to the bottom” because one chooses to use nana is a bit extreme. We have nannie and nana. But surely people should be able to choose their preference.

FancyCatSlave · 14/06/2025 21:40

DD has/had Granny and Grandpa and a Grandma and Grandad.

It’s up to them surely?

I don’t mind Granny or Grandma and dislike Nanny but I don’t have strong views.

ForeverDelayedEpiphany · 14/06/2025 21:38

My DM prefers Grandma as she says that Nan, Nanna, Gran or Granny makes her sounds ancient (and she says Grandma's a bit more middle class 😅😳, alongside Grandpa too).

I have to say, it is probably a lot of personal preference, but my two grandmothers were Grandma. My MIL is a Nan but only because it sounded better with her name Ann. Nan Ann 😳

godmum56 · 14/06/2025 21:37

xPenelopePitstop · 14/06/2025 21:09

I hate classist people, they sound like c^nts 😊

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You can say cunt on here

lizzielizard · 14/06/2025 21:37

Shetlands · 14/06/2025 20:15

I'm Granny - it was good enough for the late Queen and I'm happy with it. My mother is Grandma. I really dislike Nan, Nana and Nanny.

Me too. I love being called Granny and I'm not old or walk with a stick. Definitely wouldn't ever want to be called any of the N words.

JustSawJohnny · 14/06/2025 21:36

Jane958 · 14/06/2025 21:22

Well, if Granny was good enough for the Queen?
I will leave it there.
I did ask my sister why she didn't go for "Nonna" the Italian version of granny and she thought for a minute and said she had forgotten it was an option.
She is one of those inverted snobs, though :-)

Really not coming across well at all, OP.

Rachie1973 · 14/06/2025 21:36

Jane958 · 14/06/2025 20:05

Both my grannies were Granny.
My mother was Granny.
My sister has chosen Nana, why?
Is this an indication of how far we are plummeting towards the bottom?

You’ve definitely got to find some hobbies.

Im a Nana. My beloved Granny Smith was the one and only Granny in our family. Couldn’t live up to her amazingness and don’t try.

I started off as Nanny but kids learned Nana first and it stuck. They also have an ‘Oma’ but she’s German so I’m hoping it passes the class test.

RawBloomers · 14/06/2025 21:35

Jane958 · 14/06/2025 21:22

Well, if Granny was good enough for the Queen?
I will leave it there.
I did ask my sister why she didn't go for "Nonna" the Italian version of granny and she thought for a minute and said she had forgotten it was an option.
She is one of those inverted snobs, though :-)

Because the Queen’s family has done so brilliantly!

Scrabbelator · 14/06/2025 21:33

Some grannies are a bit sensitive about being old enough to be a granny, so they think that being a nana makes them a young and trendy granny. So basically a nana is just an insecure granny who's in denial about getting older.

Fratolish · 14/06/2025 21:33

Jane958 · 14/06/2025 21:22

Well, if Granny was good enough for the Queen?
I will leave it there.
I did ask my sister why she didn't go for "Nonna" the Italian version of granny and she thought for a minute and said she had forgotten it was an option.
She is one of those inverted snobs, though :-)

So you're a snob and she's an inverted snob. I guess you balance each other out.

JustSawJohnny · 14/06/2025 21:33

My Nan is 95.

I'm 52 and have never called her anything else.

saraclara · 14/06/2025 21:32

It's all very regional. Nanny seems to be the most popular here. Whichever member of if the nursery staff did the hand over when I picked GDD up would always refer to me as Nanny, and my little DGD would correct then and say "no, it's Grandma"

Where I grew up it was Ma-mah or Na-nah, which my mum absolutely hated.

lifeonmars100 · 14/06/2025 21:32

cumbriaisbest · 14/06/2025 21:08

I hate Nana, it sounds common.

I have never given it a second thought but then I am not a raging snob. I hope you manage to cope when you see cards for "To my dear Nana at christmas" and so on but then you doubtless don't frequent the sort of "common" shops that sell them

CandyCane457 · 14/06/2025 21:31

I had a nana and a granny and my nana was a good ten years older than granny. Granny was always fun and youthful, taking us on bikes with her huge Irish setter and taking us on fun holidays and days out, where’s nana was more the type to sit with the fire on with her cat on her lap.
So based on my own experiences I see “nana” as being a much older vibe.

However in the flip side, my boyfriend also had a baba and a granny/grandma and his were the other way around. Granny was very old and slow, his nana was much younger and livelier. So HE sees “nana” as a young thing and “granny” as an old lady.

Surely just personal preference at the end of the day, and not sure what you mean about “plummeting towards the bottom.”

cumbriaisbest · 14/06/2025 21:30

Livelovebehappy · 14/06/2025 21:20

Only on MN…..🙄

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Only when you're really bored on a Saturday night.

brunettemic · 14/06/2025 21:28

Jane958 · 14/06/2025 21:22

Well, if Granny was good enough for the Queen?
I will leave it there.
I did ask my sister why she didn't go for "Nonna" the Italian version of granny and she thought for a minute and said she had forgotten it was an option.
She is one of those inverted snobs, though :-)

Well yes if the royal family use it then we all should, what a fine upstanding example of family bliss they all are.

lifeonmars100 · 14/06/2025 21:28

Thought this was going to be a thread about an unwell relative!

OpelBurst · 14/06/2025 21:26

Cynic17 · 14/06/2025 20:06

Nothing is wrong with Granny!
Nana was the dog in "Peter Pan" 😂

I asked my Granny when I was wee why I didn't call her Nana (like my friends did), and she said to me, 'because I'm not a dog' 😂

Iloveshoes123 · 14/06/2025 21:23

I really dislike Nanny and Nana, but I guess it depends what you grew up with and is probably location based more than anything. I had 2 grannies, my kids have a granny and a grandma.

BIossomtoes · 14/06/2025 21:23

Funnywonder · 14/06/2025 21:22

Plummeting towards the bottom of what exactly?

Disclaimer: not expecting an answer as OP won’t be back.

EDIT: OP came back🤣

Edited

She posted at the same time 😂

frenchfancy81 · 14/06/2025 21:23

Jane958 · 14/06/2025 20:05

Both my grannies were Granny.
My mother was Granny.
My sister has chosen Nana, why?
Is this an indication of how far we are plummeting towards the bottom?

Plummeting to the bottom of what?! A joke, I hope...