to think that there should be a Nansnet as well as/instead of a Gransnet?

[SpringHeeledJack]

Gran is v middle class, to my ear/mind. While Nan isn't.

(I had both. Actually, I had a Granny and a Nanna. I was told by a bf that Nanna was posh. He used to pronounce it Nannaar)

(mind you he had a Naaaaan. From Caaaaaamberwell. She wasn't posh, oh no.)

Ha ha. I came on to say that we couldn't because Nan is common, but you beat me to it!

YABU. I can't stand the name Nan .

But that's just me.

Maybe I'm too posh :)

Nansnet has a great ring, but maybe there are already Netnans?

to me nan is the posh one.

I had never heard the names Nan or Nana until I met my English ex-h.

I'm Scottish and had a Grandma & a Gran. I'm Grandma by choice but also like Granny.

True enough it's not like Mums/Gransnet comes across as middle class or anything is it!!

Ooh how about Grandmamanet? (is that's how it's spelt - pronounced grand-ma-mar) This is what my own mother told me she wanted to be called.

I despair.

Scotland here too. It's granny for my mum and gran for MIL.

Nan/nana/nanna are all a definite no-no!

They are becoming more popular here, especially twinned with the equally awful Papa.

my children had a grandma and a nanna just so they had separate identities and the children did"nt get confused. now I am a grandma it is the same, other gran is called nanna!

nan's net for women with grandkids and gran's net for ladies with grandchildren .

I am granma...love it...
nana is kinda young sounding (well it is to my addled brain)

See when I told people I am a nana they go oh thats nice, but when I told people I am a granma they say ...oh never!! really! you dont look old enough

For ego and vanity I like to be called granma best

I reckon you'd get a whole different approach to, say, smacking on a NN thread to a GN thread

ime, your Nan would recommend a clip round the ear for the overexcited nipper, while Gran would suggest a nice sticky bun, and say you were 'overtired'

Granny/gran thankyou very much!

Only nanny in our family was our cm

No! You can't allow splitters. All old people must stay together.

My mother always says a Nanny is paid, Grannys are not. I prefer Granny.

Well speaking as the latest Nanny in a long line of Nannies in our family, with a DGS and another DGC on the way, I am glad to note that takes more than a name to decides one's class.

I had 2 grannies.
My sister was first to have DC within our family, and in her husband family it was Nana. So my mom became Nana for her first grankids.

My MIL is called Nanny, same her her mom was.
So we have a Nana and a Nanny. And no Granny. It is a bit weird for me.

Nana is posh (my mum is a Nana not a Nanny she is posh)

Granny jsut seems older

my mums is nana to ds, and his scottish nana is granny

I had a nanny, never nan

Oh excuse me...I'm fearfully middle class but am still "Nanny" to my dgd. I am not, however, anybody's "Nana". My own grandmother was a "Nanny" too.

Personally, since I've merely crept in and straight out of "Gransnet" I'd need evidence that a "Nansnet" would be a deal merrier and stuffed with a decent sufficiency of other old gimmers who said fuck and stuff.

It's supposed to be Granny. They don't have Nanchildren, so why does Nan/Nanna/Nanny even exist?

Ds Has Granma (paternal) and Nanna (my mum) as Nanna is close to the Italian Nonna, which she is (Italian, my mum, that is)

Nana is common
Gran and Grandma are middle class
Grandmother is posh

My mum's boycotting Gransnet on principle. Trying far too fucking hard to be posh, she says.

I hate hate hate 'gran'...it really has a tone of the elderly...'gran'

I am 'nana'...but two of my GC call me my user name. Nansnet rolls off the toungue.

Nana is common

lordy lord will have to inform my mum

I have a Nonah, I think its italian...but not sure...