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.

@corblimeylove How though? My family is middle class and my dad's mum was called Nanna simply to differentiate her from my mum's mum who was Grandma. I've never seen it as a class thing 🤔

I think Granny is old fashioned but I really don’t let it bother me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Really wouldn’t over think it. I’m 35 and had two Nana’s (I shorten to Nan when I’m with her). My own Mum wanted to be Nana as it sounds more affectionate to her than Grandma or Grandmother which sound more formal. My MIL however automatically chose Grandma without any discussion (she’s 15 years older than my Mum and 80 now). It helps that they are different so my 3 year old knows who we are talking about.
Just let people use whatever term they want

The algorithms understand. :-O They are in agreement with OP.

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It would take a bit more than that.

No they're not

And to get back to the OP

my Nana was very posh.

It’s not the middle class really, it’s the upper middle class (and those who aspire to be this!). Never underestimate how much the upper middle classes look down on the middle classes, not to mention ‘new money’ which is one of my in-law’s favourite bug bears.

Thankfully, I’m from a long line of working class plebs (to my mil’s horror) and I had the most wonderful nana.

I'm a Nan, was Nanna when my grandchildren were small, love being a Nan.

I grew up on one the most deprived estates in the country and I've always said pardon. Manners were drummed into me as a child.

We used Nana - one asked for it because she thought grandma sounded old and the other because that's what she'd called her grandmother in her home country.

So much snobbery and ridiculous views on here.

My SIL told her son that she would like her grandchildren to call her Nanna, as she had called her own grandmother that.
”Certainly not! It’s common’ was his reply.

(I’m a Granny)

I've no skin in this game, not British and don't say what or pardon, but reading on MN over the years have taught me that it's posh to say what rather than pardon.

I am a proud Granny, a cut above the inferior Nanas, one who is grandchildrens' mother's mother, the other is my ex husbands dear wife, who goes by the name of Nana Joan, resulting in the grandchildren calling him Grandad Joan, which gives me great satisfaction😂

“Pardon” is meant to be embarrassingly lower middle class - aspirational middle class people would say “what?” like a duke supposedly would.

I personally think it is infinitely more embarrassing to emulate a duke when you aren’t one, but there you go.

This is a ridiculous thread. Call your relatives what you want. Clickbaity troll thread, and I'm annoyed at myself for posting on it. I'm judging the OP and their supporters for being judgy and annoying af and I'm well aware of how circular a statement that is.

My nana's were both nana's and my mum is Nana to my DD. if she was still with us my dh's mum would have been Granny.

I get all irrational when people say mom though.

So on that basis YANBU!

"Nanna" was what my SiL called his mother's mum. Trust me none of his family live or ever have lived on a council estate.

I'm in Yorkshire and most people I know use 'nana' for their grandmothers.

Growing up I had 3 nanas, 1 grandma (though she was interchangeably called nana and grandma by her many grand and great grand children) and 4 grandads.
My dd calls her grandmothers 'nana' and called her great grandmothers a mix of grandma and nana.

To me:
Nanny - someone who cares for your children in a paid role
Granny - feels like it should be very old
Grandmother - too formal
Grandma - more formal than nana but a lot less formal than grandmother

I suspect it's more regional, and then class.

I've no skin in this game, not British and don't say what or pardon, but reading on MN over the years have taught me that it's posh to say what rather than pardon.

Well you live and learn.

'What' was considered rude in my very working class childhood and would be considered rude now in my very middle class circles.

However, reading MN over the years had taught me that most of MN would consider me really common and I'm perfectly okay with that 😂😂

I hear that

I'm loving this logic!

Don't worry - I don't think I've got any supporters. I'm thoroughly judged and slagged off.

I like your username, though.

My Gdcs have two Grannies.
I never wanted to be Nana, Nanny or Grandma - that last sounds really old and fat to me.
However when Gdcs were very little and couldn’t say their Gs, they called me Nanny, and from them, I loved it.
I have this on the front of my fridge - it’s at least a year old now.❤️