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.

Who calls their grandparent ''Ta''??

This is a very silly thread.

I like it when the person's name is incorporated into their grandparent name. I know a man named Andy whose grandkids call him "Grandy." And I remember reading that Jackie Kennedy's grandchildren called her "Grand Jackie."

I'm in the NE - nana is the norm.

Don't be a dick.

Why would you think you can decide what other people call themselves?!

How very peculiar?

To be more precise I grew up with Nana Smith, Nana Brown etc. The current little ones in our family, say Nana Jane etc, if talking about them and nana if talking to them.

Sorry but it’s Nanna up here! You’d be hard pushed to find any other variations.

Personally not keen on Granny or Nanny.
There’s some Grandma’s amongst some of my friends who aren’t local to the area.

My mum chose to be called Nana as she didn’t want to be called Grandma/Granny or Nanny and end up as Nan.

it’s a lovely name.

My mum insisted on being Granny to my DC. I also called both of my grandmothers "Granny". I like it, and I think I would like to be called Granny too if and when the time comes. I think it's quite affectionate. I know the Queen was called Granny too, and I loved the Queen!

DH called his grandmothers "Nanny", and his mum is Nanny to my DC. I'm not too keen on it, but that's just personal preference. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Nanna is the usual name for grandmothers where I'm from!
Or do you mean instead of banana?

@IDoughnutKnow

Actually @continentallentil pushed me into it. I only said you are clearly a fucking knob, because @continentallentil seemed to find it odd that I would say I was offended, rather than calling you a fucking tit, which I would've preferred to do, and should've done.

Now, your saying that @continentallentil : "I think Continental sounds a bit nicer than you do at this point, Oblomov."

How do you work that one out? I've said nothing that many other posters on the thread haven't said?

Hahaha - berating the plebs for saying Nanna person ut doesn't understand the con ept of name, dropping!

So you just don't like regional dialect then?

My dc called my Nan, na-na…. I don’t see what the the problem is… everyone has their own family quirks. It was mostly because dd couldn’t say nan properly when she was like 2 and it stuck… even when we talk about her now (she died 5 years ago) we use it

😂

I'm a Nanny to my DGC.

We don't have nanny childcare in our family though.

We're not the right class.

@IDoughnutKnow I had two Nanas and my mum is Nana. Didn’t know it was working class 😄

But adult kids who call their kids “mummy” sound like absolute twats so I’ll stick to being common 😄

Yeah my DC have two grannies and I'm their mum. When people refer to me as their mam my head spins around like that scene in The Exorcist. Ta is unforgivable.

I prefer Grandma purely because that’s what I grew up with, but live and let live. Different strokes, etc.

Nanny is the one I don’t really ‘get’. I always think of a nanny as in the profession - someone you can employ to look after your kids, not their biological grandmother!

Only ever heard nana around here.
Variations are Nan or Nanny
Never Gran. Granny Grandma

This is genuinely amusing as for some undefined reason I irrationally dislike grandma and grannie

each to their own

I'm most definitely a nana and my husband is a bampi (which is grandpa in Welsh). 🙂

I loved my beautiful Nana 💗still miss her💗

Adult children who call their parents mummy and daddy give me the heebie jeebies. I prefer grandma to granny and don't mind nanna. I am common as fook though.

I am glad someone else mentioned adding surnames, as in "Nana Smith" and "Nana Jones". This is how we distinguished between my grandmothers. One was v glamorous, drove a sports car and wore Chanel and the other one knitted, fed me constantly on ice cream, frosties with cream and pocket money, and had a fag hanging out of her mouth and a granny -perm - the latter as a child I believed to be a proper granny in my mind! The former slighly scary and not quite right on the granny front. Both perfectly happy being called Nana.

We've actually exported Nana to my mother-in-law - she was very averse to being called grandmother in her mother tongue but loves being " French Nana" to my kids, distinguishing herself from "Nana Jones" who is their great granny. My own Mum has plumped for "granny" probably to avoid confusion (as there would then by 2 "Nana Jones").

It’s funny because DP is from midlands, his mum was quite uptight so they had to do stuff the ‘proper way’ his mums mum was grandma and his dads stepmom was nan
I’m from london.I called both grandparents Nan and grandad but used thier surname when discussing them with the family…
we are middle class. My mum, Nan etc did the same with thier grandparents.