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?

Granny on one side and Granma on the other. South / south-west.

I think there's an element of class - Granny was always very clear she was not Nanny or Nana, because nannies were staff. (Not by my day, they weren't!)

On the other hand my MIL has always been known as Grandma - because she says she is too old to be a "nana". My own mum (nana to the kids) is in her 50s but MIL had DH a lot later in life and is 70

Grandma, Gran, Granny, Nana, Nan, Nanny and MaMa- Tyne and Wear

I called my maternal grandmother Nanna, she was from rural Norfolk.

Paternal grandmother was Bubba, like most Jewish heritage grannies I know.

My kids have a Grandma ( rural Norfolk again) and a Gan Gan ( posh English South African, from London).

Most of their friends seem to have a granny, grandma or nanny. Quite a few have babes from their grandmother's family heritage, like Nonna. We are in rural Essex. I'd say Granny is typically Scottish, but by no means exclusively so. Seems the title of choice for posher middle class grandmothers about here. It's quite a strong class/ cultural signifier isn't it? I'd never thought of that before.

Granny is used everywhere and anywhere English speaking - it's not confined to Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Downton girls called Violet Granny.

Nan - West Midlands, or Black Country to be more specific.
Ma nan is alright ya know, the yamyam dialect is alright when u know it. I core be arsed to explain it because no one would know what I'm gu'in on about anyway. Am yow from the black country? I dow anymore as I live in Birmingham nowadays.

Black Country Alphabet Song:

Granny and Grandma. I’m from Surrey but both grandparents are from another country where Nan/ Nanny isn’t a known name for a grandparent.

Grandma. London.

To me, a nanny is someone you pay to look after your children rather than a grandmother.

FlagFish that's because you're from London - you're posh, no matter how cockney you may or not be. For the rest of us in England or even the UK we're the lowly uneducated types in comparison.

To me, Grandma is an American word for it.

I just grew up with granddad and nan.

Globalisation seems to be having a heavy representation these days though. So much for proper/so-called diversity of British traditions.

Weird response . I never said anyone was lowly or uneducated. I just answered the question asked in the OP.

Globalisation seems to be having a heavy representation these days though. So much for proper/so-called diversity of British traditions

Meaning?

I just grew up with granddad and nan

For someone concerned with Americanisations you might be interested to know that 'granddad' is the American spelling and 'grandad' the British.

My middle class London grandmothers were both Grandma Surname. My mother is also Grandma, her opposite number being my N Irish bil's mum who is Granny (his NI grandmothers were both Granny Surname.) Her other opposite numbers were all deceased so don't know what they might have been.

My friend from Oxfordshire's working class grandparents were Nan and Gramps.

Most posh London based barristers I know say Granny.

Both of mine (maternal and paternal grandmothers) were Grandma. To distinguish we then used their surname Grandma Smith. Grandma jones.
Our grandads were Grampy maternal) And Grandad (paternal).
Grew up on the other side of the world from them all and didn’t see or speak to them often (phone calls were timed really carefully as they were so expensive then) so we wouldn’t ever have used what I think of as more familiar, closer terms eg nana granny etc.

Nanny/Nan and Grandma on my dads side. We are all from the north west.

My husbands side is Scottish and the use Gran/Granny.

Granny. She grew up in a European/Indian family in India.

Didn't have a grandmother on DM's side.

DH had a Granny and a Grandma. Both from Norfolk/Cambridgeshire.

DF's DP is Grandma. She's Welsh but her DGCs live in Manchester.

I wonder how much of the naming decision comes from each party in the relationship?

DH and I both had a granny - both from the south / home counties.

My grandparents all chose their names. I had a granny (Home Counties), nain (Welsh links) & a grandma.

My dc have a Gran and a Nana. Nana chosen so it would be the first name said by grandchildren.

It is hard to find ‘gran’ cards. A lot more nan / nana / nanny ones.

I shall be a granny.

Mine were both Grandma Surname. My mum was Granny to mine and DH’s mum is Nan- firstname.

Nanny/Nan - South Wales

Mine were both Nana which my husband hates and get annoyed when I talk about being Nana to my future grandchildren. Our dc call his mum Granny but he called his gran. We are north east - his family is from the edge of North Yorkshire (not officially North Yorkshire but very close).

One of my Nanas was a southerner and one a northerner (Geordie) although both living on the same north east town by the time us grandchildren came along so it is a bit odd they opted for the same name.

I had 2 Nanas , ( Irish GPs) . Children have a Nana ( Irish side) and a Granny ( welsh)

Grannie. South West