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

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Unless you are a toddler and are talking about bananas.

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

My maternal grandmother wanted to be called Nan, my sister, being the oldest grandchild decided to call her nanna, it stuck. All 5 grandchildren called her that. My paternal grandmother was known as gran.
Nanny on the other hand has never and will never be used by me or mine because we are not goats.
My ex mil was known as nanna.
My mother and her partner were known as grandma, I'm sure she would have preferred grandmother snob.

Thank fuck my kids didn't have three grandmother's.

Wind yer neck in. I had a nana(my mammy's mammy ) and my weans' had a nana(my mammy) . Nana's are the best. I hope I get to be a Nana.

You are being quite unreasonable. And very petty.🤔

I much prefer Nana to Grandma, Grandmother, Granny or any other form.

Sorry/not sorry that you would like to see a word banned that has nothing to do with you.

First world problems I'm sure. 🙄

It's a regional thing. I'm in Ireland and it's nearly always Gran/Granny, sometimes Nanny.

Oh yes, I also had a great nanna. She was born somewhere in the 1890's

I have also used that name a LOT longer than I've been on Mumsnet, and it's been around a LOT longer than the internet.
FFS

I say lunch and tea. I think this is because when I went from primary to secondary school, we suddenly had "lunch hour" instead of ""dinner time". But tea stayed tea because that was at home.

Grancher was used in the Bristolian, Somerset and (what is now) South Gloucestershire parts of my family but is also common in the Forest of Dean and the Severn Vale.

I've heard this middle class snobbery over nana/nanny/granny most of my life. Some people use different words/terms to you OP and?...

Signalling that you are somehow better than others (which is basically all that snobbery is) because of the words they use is pretty pathetic and I wish people wouldn't do it

Wow no way - cant believe I studied language and linguistics at university to never be told that thank you ShodoanLives 🙏

My point was generally people won’t be saying Nana for gran the same way they pronounce it for a banana no matter the phonetically nuances🙄 unless it’s an inside joke thing I doubt many granny’s want to be named after a banana.

Snobbery, isn't it?
My mum made me and my sister call both sides grandma because apparently nana was common. 🙄
Same with mam which is widely used where I grew up. "Me mam's a raging snob" nope. Had to be mum.

I'll call my Nana whatever I like, thank you very much!
If you want to sound all formal when addressing your grandparents, go for it, but my 92 year old Nana would be horrified if I ever called her Grannie/Grandmother/Grandma.

Not sure where bananas come into the conversation. Surely narna is short for banana.

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Phonetical Lolz

A nanny is someone who gets paid for childcare Why do people say nan, nana etc and things like that? Whats wrong with grandma?

Talking about the good old days of mumsnet is ridiculous- it’s a website. Caring what others call their loved ones is frankly odd. Name dropping is sad. Your grown up kids can call you what they like- but why do we need to know? I think this thread is just the usual school holiday windup in conclusion. HTH, nana 🙂

When I hear it - I think it sounds kind of Irish or travelling community.

It sounds so English to me

I hate nana or nan for grandmother too and I have no idea why. I even had a Nana (although I was only tiny when she died)

Nothing's wrong with it.
Equally, nothing's wrong with gran, nan, nana etc.

A nanny is someone who gets paid for childcare Why do people say nan, nana etc and things like that?

It's also a goat. You do understand that some words have more than one meaning?

Whats wrong with grandma? What's wrong with grandmother?

Actually nothing wrong with any term as long as it isn't rude or disrespectful. I know families where the grandparents have nicknames.

I’m in my 60’s, I had a lovely wee Nana, my mother was also Nana….YABVVVVU

oh dear - you really don’t understand language development do you😂.

I will assume OP has very little in her life to feel superior about so she is clutching at straws!

she is probably there sort of person who hasn’t done very well but believes working class students shouldn’t be allowed to go to university or enter certain professions.

OP would be crashing bore at dinner parties always worried about ‘those people’ taking over and lowering the tone😊

Scrolled through entire thread and decided no one is as classically British unaffectionate as my British family , or my DH's, who insist on calling everyone by first names. My DH calls his parents Kath and John ; my DH is so repressed he doesn't even sign his full name , just initials .He called his DM 'mother' if I recall.
Now that's proper repressed posh, OP. It ahs genuinely left me now knowing ow to address him!

(My American DM , OTOH, called both parent's mommy and daddy until they died when she was in her 50s- many Americans do)

my DH is so repressed

sorry, that should say my DF is so repressed .

although DH probably is too