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.

Nothing wrong with being snobby we all have it in us. I don't think you are vile either that's horrible thing to post to you. It says more about that poster than what it does about you.

Well, OP, I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and think that perhaps you were brought up like me: to think that it’s vitally important to use the Right Words. My mother is proper old school old money, and she taught us to be horrendous snobs, quite honestly. Like the rest of her family, she would be absolutely charming to anybody’s face, but would also be deeply judging them for using non-U words.

I know it’s hard to break away from something so ingrained, but you can do it, OP. My daughter says ‘toilet’ like the rest of her class at school, and you know what? That’s fine.

Your a nana for saying I can't use nana.

I called my grandmothers nanna, my kids call their grandmothers nanna. It's normal

Why be offended though? It’s so hyper-sensitive and, if we must, snow-flakey.

Thinking she’s a tit is of course reasonable.

Rhotic accents pronounce every 'r' they see written, not just some of them like non-rhotic accents.
So nar-nar for banana sounds very odd😁

I don’t think someone with adult children calling them mummy has one single leg to stand on if I’m being honest OP! That is much more controversial than nana! FWIW I LOVE nana, my 2 year old babbles it as she runs to my mum and it is the CUTEST.

Grandma is for snobs, I had 2 nanas, nana surname and nana surname, they were just how you'd imagine a nana to be like. My kids have 1 nana and a snooty grandma, I've never liked the word grandma.

Narna is toddler speak for banana, not to be confused with nana.

I don't like the word nana ,my grandkids all call me grandma but it doesn't bother me what anyone else wants to be referred to as 🙄

My mum is a nana and my kids sometimes call her banana instead. She hates it 😂

I’m from a region where grandmothers are usually called Nana. I’ve also got two tattoos, and had a professional career in the past, now doing a terribly middle class part time job. You’d have hated me if we’d met, because as your boss I’d have smiled politely while refusing to rise to your trolling. You can always tell when the school holidays start. 🙄

<sigh> It's a class thing.

I have a Nana, she is my grandmother and my children’s great grandmother. I had all my grandparents and two sets of great grandparents until I was in my 20s. It would have been a bit mad to have four grandmothers. My children have 7 grandmothers/great grandmothers, they all have a different title to differentiate.

This is the best internet comment today 😂😂😂

My grandparents were from NE and Scotland. 1 set were nana and granda and the other were gran and granda. So granda must be a northern/Scottish thing!

DC now have a gran and a nana and grandad.

I call my parents Mummy and Daddy and my children still call me Mummy despite being over 18. I know that's not popular on here, though.

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I want my grandchildren to call me by my name Carpe Diem. The idea of my grandchildren calling me gran, granny, grandma, grandma scares me and will make me feel old.

MIL likes to be called Nanna. My Mum likes to be called Nanny which confuses me no end 😂 I don't like Nanna but like Nanny.

I've posted about this before in about 2004 - my mil wanted her own unique, name to be uttered by the grandchildren. Cute but with literary roots. She forwarded me, several times, and stuck it up in the house a poem using phonetics and various grammatical quirks including her desired 'spontaneous' name choice of 'Groin Murder'

As the dial up updated, and the number of posts since you last logged in climbed, her idea was ripped to pieces and I gather the strength to ignore that and various other first grandchild batshit dreams. I occasionally wished I'd gone with 'Nana', she'd hate that, but we did settle down and with geography and putting communication in her son's realm we've made it through. I'll miss her when she eventually goes.

Other grandchildren did not escape and are saddled with an over thought out label, it's fucking grim.

Oh so they would say R-hotic and non-rhotic accents would say hotic?

Yabu and classist

For what, responding to your troll post? How about don't be a troll in the first place?

It does sound like a sort of confused appropriation of "nanny" in the sense of person employed to look after children. A little bit like people who call magazines "books".

No, OP is definitely the horrible one here.

I hate granny it sounds so old.

Nonsense. It's just the diminutive of "grandmother" which is what it relates to.