To have realised I have an irrational dislike of some names for family members

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Nan
Nanna
Great Nan
Aunty
Mom

I realise it's irrational (and if you use any of the above, please don't take offence.)

But does anyone else hate the 'sound' of them?

Can't stand Mam, it sounds really coarse to me.

It's he Welsh word for mum. Welsh is the oldest European language, so..........

Also in Irish, and in some dialects it is mom.

Lass Surely you'd just call them by their name?

Oh fgs. I had already said I called our nannies by their name. Of course you would once you had employed them. You would ask the agency for a "nanny". I would introduce the person as "Jane, our nanny"

My point was for all these posters who think nanny means grandmother then what word do they use to describe the person who performs the job of a nanny?

i have an irrational irritance of people who refer to their mother as 'mum' as opposed to 'my mum'. like shes everyones mum.

God, it really boils my piss does that. Glad I'm not alone.

Yay compo! So many people think I'm bonkers for that one. I guess because no one where I'm from would refer to their parent that way.

No, I never heard it growing up either, everyone would preface it by saying 'my mother/dad/nan'.

I've thought about why people referring to their mother as 'mum' as opposed to 'my mum' and I can't quite put my finger on why it is so teeth grindingly annoying. It seems arrogant and self centred, yet simultaneously childish.

Don't get me started on adults calling their parents mummy and daddy.

When does Bils gf become Auntie? We've got 2 dcs but the relationship was too new when they were born to go straight for auntie! Now it's a bit awkward!

Fwiw, we've got nannie & grandad (but my mum calls him granda), granny & grandad and nanny & her partner by name.

Seems to be a bit of snobbery here. Can't call her nanny because it may be confused with the hired help.

And not being able to see how Grandmother became Nanny.

Grand mother
Grandma
Granny
Nanny

How is that hard to see?

My SMIL is Glam-ma as she is far to glamorous to be anything else

The thing is Lass, these posters who call their grandmothers Nanny are clearly so far beneath as to have never had to consider this confusion.

Why not toddle off to ToffNet?

Don't get me started on adults calling their parents mummy and daddy

Oooooh, I so agree with the adults calling their parents Mummy and Daddy. DH and all his siblings do this. It drives me NUTS. They even do it when they're writing about them (eg texts), which for some reason infuriates me even more! And their parents refer to each other in the same way! STOP IT!

I don't mind so much if it's the cultural norm (I believe it is in parts of Ireland, for instance), but where we live it's used by 5-year-olds and my ILs.

Alisvolat. Think you got suckered by that post. I can't be real. Can it.......

I'm a Brummie and really don't think Mom is that frequent. I have a Mum, and lots of friends from home are the same. Some Moms about ss well, of course. It's Babby I hate.

Oh, I also have a Pop (father). I started calling him that in my teens and I love it. He calls me Daught. Grandmothers were Grandma and Granin. I love the latter in particular, I think it's a lovely sounding word.

Why not toddle off to ToffNet?

Why is it so difficult for them to understand not everyone uses "nanny" or "nan" ? All the wide eyed astonishment from at least one person that she'd never heard anyone use anything other than nanny. Clearly she's never been north of Berwick on Tweed.

Alisvolat. Think you got suckered by that post. I can't be real. Can it.

What ? That no one employs a nanny? Good grief.

I hate Nanny/Nan. We always had granny. Mom to me is American but I had a friend who came from the West Midlands area and I think it may be used there. My grandfather was always Pappa - but he was Scottish and I think that may be common there too. I love being called Aunty, in fact My grown DN's still yes it because they know I love it. Different strokes and all that.

No-one's acting surprised that not everyone uses Nan, Lass. Quite the opposite, actually - we're all finding it funny that people can't imagine anyone would call their grandmother the same thing that they call the 'help'.

Yes what Jorah said.

So basically people don't like Nanny/Nanna/Nan because it's horribly common

We have a Nanny and a Great Nanny. I don't know of anyone, or any kids in my kid's class, who has anything but a Nan/na/y.

Mine have Grandads but there are plenty of Grampys and Bampys round here too. But we are very common.

Cheese mom is the norm in the black country/south staffs.

bup yeah I knew it was the norm in parts of Ireland, but otherwise anyone post puberty calling their parents mummy and daddy I find nauseatingly twee.

I'm sure I've been on this exact same thread before!

I love nana, all my cousins on both sides use it. I always assumed it was more a Northern thing though?

Loving Toffsnet!

I don't like Mummy and Daddy said by anyone over the age of about 7 at most. I was encouraging my children to call me Mum by the time they started school, though DH was happy with Daddy for a bit longer. Accept Mam and Mom as regional variants although I wouldn't use them myself.

I much prefer Granny to Nanny, probably just because that's what I was brought up with and used to, although I think grannies/nannies would be given the choice of what they want to be called. As it happens, both sets of grandparents in our family wanted to be Granny and Grandad so if we're talking about them, for clarity we say e.g. Grandad Frank or Granny Anne (not their real names) but always just Granny and Grandad to their faces, as they're never all in the same place at the same time.

My mum had a rather odd objection to Nanny, as she thought it sounded as if people were trying to sound posh by pretending they had an actual paid nanny. Now I've had children of my own I think it probably just originated from children mispronouncing Granny - my DS1 went through a stage when just about everything began with N or D!

My mum used to spell my dad's "name" as Granddad and it always looked wrong to me, but she can't write much any more and I notice he has started spelling it Grandad since he took over the writing duties.

Also, people who say Mom is Midlands - I spent a lot of my childhood in the East Midlands and I never heard it, so I'm wondering if it's actually a lot more localised than just Midlands...

Lass I'm perfectly well aware that not everybody calls their grandmother "Nan", but your inability to understand that not everybody inhabits a reality in which having help is normal is bordering on hilarious.