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.

I have never in my life encountered anyone who calls a magazine a book!!

See I'm the opposite, Nanny to me is a female goat or a childminder-type person. I don't mind Nanna.

I have a nana and had a very precious nan. I didn't feel like my nana deserved the coveted nan title for me.

A poster up thread mentioned groin murder for a name I like it. When I have grandchildren I will encourage them to call me Groin Murder.

But why are you comparing it to banana 🍌 that would be nar-na where as for grandma context it would be NaN-Na

So you, a grown woman, talk like a toddler (babies call their parents mummy and daddy) but you have an issue with Nana? My nanas wouldn't want to be called gran, nan or grandmother.

Also, Nana as a nickname for grandmother sounds different to the 'narna' sound in banana.

I’m not English and I really don’t like Nanna or Nanny. To me a nanny is a person who is the sole childcare for one family.

My mil asked to be called nanny because she thought granny sounded old. I didn’t oppose it, but she isn’t involved with her gc so her name doesn’t really matter.

My mother is granny which to me is by far the nicer name.

Conversely, my mum thinks that Granny or Nan / Nanny makes her sound really old, so she prefers my DC to call her Grandma.

Obviously if this thread is about abbreviation of the word banana, then I'm with the OP... although I think "nana" has a certain ring to it (but doesn't really work with the songs "Let's All Have a Banana", or the brilliant "Banana Phone" song).

I’m 52 and my dad’s mum was Nana where my mum’s mum was Nan or nanny. I can’t abide a banana being called a nana and if my children did call it a nana they would be corrected. I can’t stand ta instead of thank you either.

Nanna isn’t impressed with the OP

Nice bit of name dropping there grandmama 😁

I think Continental sounds a bit nicer than you do at this point, Oblomov.

The normal response to reading tittish things on MN is to either say "you are a tit", or to sigh and scroll on by. I'm not sure this thread merits quite such a character assassination.

I guess, in the same vain, you could say that "nana" isn't as posh perhaps?
What makes "grandma" so snobby then? Is it the same as the idea that "grandpa" is a more uniquely middle class name than "grandad"?

(When I asked my DM why I couldn't find any cards with "grandpa" on in Sainsbury's for my DF, she said it was apparently mainly because the use of "grandpa" is mostly by the middle classes 🤔)

Someone mentioned them before I did.

I use ‘Nan’ when addressing my Nans but when referencing them it is ‘Nanny Mary’ and ‘Nanny Valerie’ as Nan Mary/Valerie just sounds odd. They are both very much ‘Nans’ and not ‘Grandmothers’ but if one was Granny and the other Nan I suppose I wouldn’t need to use their names. Nanny/Nanna definitely has a place!

My friend is Anna. Her grandkids call her N’Anna.

I called both my grandmothers by pet names. As far as any grandchild is concerned (however grown up) that’s their name, like mum is mum.

WasJuliaRight, I'm with you on 'ta' as well. I can't abide it.

I’m nana and my husband is poppop. It distinguishes us from the other grandparents.

Where I'm from it is nana and granny/Grandma etc is rarely used.
I used to have a big nana and a little nana 😊

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.
Ewww. For me that borders on ‘age play’. Very very creepy.

My nana was my nana. I don’t think she really wanted to be one but that was the name we gave her. I have no idea what my other grandmother was called as my parents divorced when I was 5 and I didn’t see her anymore, think it was granny thought before.

Just leave your views about what people call their relatives to yourself as it makes you sound snobby, sneery and idiotic.

Really who gives a toss what someone calls their grandmother? Grandma , Grandmama,
Granny, Nanny, Nanna, Nan -it really doesn't matter.

As for saying ''Nanna'' sounds like Banana- it really doesn't.

@IDoughnutKnow out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on simply 'Gran'?

I'm in Scotland and to be honest when I hear 'Granny' in a Scottish accent it doesn't quite sound the same as someone from Kensington.

Why is it a problem? My mum is Gran and my Mil is nana and it makes it easier for the kids to know who we are talking about.