Anyone else's Grandma....

[me4real]

I happened to see this mentioned somewhere presumably as a joke, but my nan insisted on being called Grandma, as she said nan was a goat etc etc.

I hadn't heard the above reason until my uncle mentioned it a while back. Also presumably she thought it common.

I always thought it was sooo formal - quasi-Victorian, although she will've been born in about 1915 or something. She died in the early 90s. I don't recall ever challenging the status quo.

She wasn't well off financially or anything.

Anyone else?

We have tunnel granny and other granny.

Tunnel granny is my mum and we have to go through a tunnel to see her.

Other granny is my mother in law who's 10 min walk away.

I had Granny and Grandpa x2... my kids have a Gran (shortened from Grandmama which was a joke that stuck) and Papa "name" and a Granma (her insistance with the weird spelling!) and Grandad...

My grandchildren (3 sets) had an OMA, a Nana, a Nonna, and Gramma (me). It is useful not to have to share titles and be, for instance, Grandma Smith or Grandma Jones.

I had two Grandmas and both were as far from posh as you can get.
They had first names attached Like Grandma Dolly and Grandma May. My DM chose to be Gran and my MIL Granny - I wanted them to choose what they would like to be called. I love Gran personally and really dislike Nan or Nana which conjures up images of Catherine Tate's Nan character and an old dear with a perm and a pinny!

I can't imagine why anyone would think Gran, Grandma or Granny were posh or cold, unless it is that years ago Nan and Nan might have been considered a bit less posh?

My Granny's sister had the best title in the family though... she took umbrage against grandparents being "grand" and aunts uncles being "great" and declared she'd be Grand Aunty "name"... then my kids came along and she became Great Grand Aunty "name"... she was very much a character who died two years ago in her late 90s... much missed (although even whilst alive, you were lucky if you could find a gap in her schedule to visit her as she was always on the go)...

My mother was called Grandmother I hated nanny like others said name of a goat although husbands mother wanted to be called it One she of grandchildren call me Nee which I love

I had a grandma and a nan.

My dd has a nan and a gran.

If I'm lucky enough to become a grandparent (no signs yet!) I will be a grandma.

Up to the grandparent what they want to be.

I had a Nanna and a Grandma growing up to make it easier for us kids to distinguish between them I think. They sat down and agreed who would be which name 😊 when I had my eldest my Nanna was still alive so my Mum was supposed to be Grandma and exMIL was supposed to be Nan or Gran but she didn't like that so insisted on calling herself Grandma as well my DD's ended up having two Grandmas with their names added afterwards to distinguish between them.

I had a nana and a granny.

I'm Hertfordshire, always called my Grandmothers Nan/Nanny

When my kids were small, to distinguish between my mum and DHs mum, my mum was Nanny, Dhs Mum was Nana

Why on earth does it matter,?

I think its a regional thing, I'm Irish so grandmother's here in NI tend to be granny or less commonly nanny. My mum's mum was from Yorkshire and when we were there people would always refer to her as our grandma but we called her granny.

mamgu. (pr, mamghee)

I have three Grandchildren. My eldest Grandchild has always called us Grandma and Grandad and his sister did too until 3 years ago when she was 5. One day she said Grandma can I call you Nan. I told her she could call me whatever she was happy with. When my sons daughter was born 2 years ago I was Nana when she started to speak and my husband Papa.
So I am a Grandma, a Nan and a Nana. Happy with all three .

RedElephant You're right. It doesn't matter. It's just a petty snobbery thing.

My dcs have a nana and a granny ( mil ).
We live in Ireland.
In laws would be "posher". Professionals going back generations.
MIL found it hard to be called granny as she was a young grandmother.
Nana adored being a grandmother from the off.
Nanny would be used more in working class areas than middle class areas in Ireland.
(And there are "classes" in Ireland despite other Irish Mumsnetters denying it on previous threads - Ross O' Carroll Kelly books and their popularity say it all ).

The Irish word for a grandmother is Maimeó ( Mamo ).
I like that.

We asked our mums what they wanted DS to call them. My mum chose Grandma (‘because thats what I am, his Grandma’ ) and MIL chose Grannie. I didn’t really think more about it. I don’t really like to hear nan or nanny or nana or momma tbh but have heard all of them used and if our mums had chosen one of those that would have been fine too,

me too, shortened to Gu

I had a grandmere (not french not pretentious she wasn't nan or gran or grannie as those were taken with greats etc) and she'd wanted grandma until my mum ruined it with her pregnancy declaration and constantly going on about it after I was born. So my Grandmere put some distance between my mum and her after I was taken off my mum.

My Irish grandmother was Grandma and my Scottish grandmother was Gran.
Neither of them posh.

I always called mine Granny, I'm in Ireland

@RedElephants

I'm Hertfordshire, always called my Grandmothers Nan/Nanny

When my kids were small, to distinguish between my mum and DHs mum, my mum was Nanny, Dhs Mum was Nana

Why on earth does it matter,?

Same here

I think it just comes down to preference?

I had a Grandma and grandad.
My LG has a Granny and Grandad, Grandma and Grandpa, and a Grandad. Each chose what they wanted to be called

My dads parents were Grandma and Grandpa, my mums mum was Nan and my step grandad was Grandad. My mums real dad was Grampie. It was a good way to differentiate between them. I never have it much thought.

My MIL insisted on Gran and my mum Nan. Again I’ve never thought about it.

Can't stand nan or nana, whereas to me Gran and Grandma sound much warmer