what do you call your parent's mother ?

[BrizzleMint]

I was doing that dialect quiz and selected Granny which apparently is nearly unique to Scotland and (mainly Northern) Ireland.

I'm from the south west.

What do you call your parent's mother and roughly where are you from?

Dad's mum was nanny, mum's mum was Mum (but she was Caribbean so different rules ) - Londoner/Essex

In from the south west and say granny as well.

Granny is an interesting one. It might be unique to Scotland in the quiz, but it is also the poshest of all the grandmother names.

Nana - north east
My dc call my dm either nana or nanny and mil is just nana.

Nanny then nan when I got older- Midlands. My mom is nana to her grandchildren - Midlands. Dh had a grandma and a gran - north west.

Granny definitely not unique to Scotland and NI.

I say granny and I'm from Dublin. although neither of said grannies were Dubliners. In my experience granny is the most commonly used term for grandmother in Ireland.

Mums from hull we now live in lancashire and called her my granny, my childen call my mum granny too

when they were alive big nanna and little nanna as one was 5ft 10 and the other one was 5ft 0 , my youngest grandson calls me nanny bell he is only 3

Dm's Mam was Nanna
Ddad's Mam was Grandma

North East

Satan

Oops thought it said ‘partners’ mother not ‘parents’

Nain and Granny (North Wales)

Granny - central Scotland

I had Big Nanny (5ft9) and Little Nana (5ft)
My mum is Grandma to my son
I’m in Cheshire

Grandma on mums side and nana on dads. My mum is grandma to my DC but my MIL is gran. My husband had a granny and a grandma. North Yorkshire all of us

My parents mother would be my Great Granny.

Nanny until a certain age, nan after that.

I'm from east London, all my family refers to their parents mum as Nan.
When I had my baby my mum was nanny. Whereas my husband is from the north west and his mum prefers grandma. It is strange for me because I'm not used to calling a parents mum anything other than nanny or nan. So to hear my husband call his mum grandma to our son isn't something I'm used to (I don't mean it disrespectfully, just different to what I'm used to).

Mine were all called Nana and if I needed to differentiate they were Nana Surname. We were East Anglia, one nana living in NZ.

My dc have a Nana (my mum) - East Anglos, Granny (DP's mum - NW) abdgreat Grandma (my nana- EA). They all chose what they wanted to be called. They also have a NZ Nana.

Gran. Ayrshire.

London and `Irish - Granny but my equally London and Irish BIL’s children call them Nana.

Both were Granny. Both were Scottish but I was brought up in SE.

I’m welsh (SW) and had a Mamgu and Dadcu and a Mam & Dat (shortened for os Datcu I think?)

My kids have a granny (Irish) and grandma (Welsh)x

Boulezvous

My parents mother would be my Great Granny. eh?

RaffertyFair

I can only figure out two reasons: she was really nice or incest...