To wish people wouldn't use the word "nana"

[IDoughnutKnow]

Unless you are a toddler and are talking about bananas.

People never used it back in the good old days of MN.

The Oxford English Dictionary quotes poet E. E. Cummings as using Nana to refer to his grandmother in 1899. I think that predates even the earliest days of MN.

I had a Nana, she was lovely.

I had an Irish nana

Adults who call their parents mummy and daddy make my skin crawl. It’s is usually people trying to sound posher than they are. Nothing is more off putting than a forty year old man taking about his mummy and daddy.

But I’m okay with Nana. it’s authentic.

So where are you from ? Genuinely trying to say it in different accents in my head and can't get it 😫

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Such snobbery. Every time this comes up, it really irritates.

What a snobby comment.
You need to widen your vision of the world.

Because it’s true. It’s horrific and working class

The sisters in Ballet Shoes had a Nana (who may have started out as a nanny, but was definitely a grandmother figure) and they were as UMC as they come, albeit in genteel poverty (or 'socioeconomically challenged', as the odious PP above would probably call it, thinking she's oh so cleverly mocking PC-gorn-mad).

Applause for JenniferBarkley's post.

I'm nan to the older grandkids and nanan to the younger ones.

Hahaha I have a Nana and I'm a senior academic with a PhD.

If I'm ever fortunate enough to have have grandchildren I hope they call me Nana too.

Please tell us oh you of the Great Keeper of English Elocution, what is the correct terminology for one’s mother’s mother? Something that sounds like it’s fallen out the arse of a Downton character I’m sure. Why is it always a certain type of English person who behaves like this? That their very narrow existence and linguistic usage must be so very correct because they speak in such a beige accent and usually live within 50 miles of London? So devoid of personality that they believe their need to be hyper correct in language overrides any common decency or respect for the varied cultures and languages of all the nations and counties around them. Boring people.

I'm as middle class as they come and I had a Nana, my children have a Nana and a Nanny.

Not that there's anything wrong with being working class.

Snobbery is fairly horrific though.

I think people like you are intellectually challenged, but there we go.

Call your granny what she wants to be called. None of anyone else's business.

Nanna is a lovely name for a grandmother!

You’d hate it round here then. Loads of Nan-Arrrrrrrs.

@ZolaBudd - you wouldn't like to hear my actual response to that comment.

I had a nana growing up and my kids call my mum nana. More of a regional thing than class.
Mamar is considered lower class where we are. Who cares anyway 🤷

The clue is in my MN nickname.

Here is a favorite dessert from my neck of the woods: often called 'nana pudding.

@rosewatergin - says more about you really. Attitudes like that are nothing to be proud of

I'm aware I use the word nana on here alot now.

But I'm my defense I'm a pleb from the depths of the underclass of Merseyside.

Speaking of which, in the Southern US, there is no class connotation to what you call your grandmother, with the possible exception of MeMaw.

@CasperGutman The Oxford English Dictionary quotes poet E. E. Cummings as using Nana to refer to his grandmother in 1899. I think that predates even the earliest days of MN.
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I am so middle class it is embarrassing! I had a nana. Her husband (who I never met) was a doctor.

it is amazing how people will use such innocent things as class markers. And use class as a proxy for intelligence

I suppose I am as bad. I assume @rosewatergin is dull and limited due to her opinions and poor written skills😂