What is wrong with Granny?

[Jane958]

Both my grannies were Granny.
My mother was Granny.
My sister has chosen Nana, why?
Is this an indication of how far we are plummeting towards the bottom?

The bottom of what? It all sounds very classist to me. I’m a new Nan but I’m a glam-ma

That's interesting.
I had no idea that "Nanna" was supposed to be the "best one". When my DD asked what I preferred I went for "Grandma" as she'd been very fond of her late Grandma.
My guess was that her MIL wanted to be "Nanny" so all was well.
But the other day I met up with a colleague from way back (20 years or so) and, when I said I had a GDC the first thing she asked was "What do they call you?". I said "Grandma" and she looked sad and said "Aww! The other one took "Nanna" did she?'. So I suppose she sees that as "best".
I'm assuming now that "Nanny" and "Nanna" are pretty similar but maybe there's a difference between those too.
I do know a lady who stresses that she's "Nan-NAH" with the emphasis very much on the second syllable. She says it makes her sound younger but I don't think a name makes anyone look younger.

This. ^ When I googled GRANNY, this came up, (the first pic,) which is just hilarious! 😆 It's a horrific video game with zombies and monsters in it.

Also, pic 2 came up further down. I don't look like, and never will look like either of these, so the term 'granny' can get in the bin. 😂

My first born was the first grandchild on both sides. We asked my mother and MIL what they wanted to be called. They both chose Nana, myself and DH both had 2 Nana's, but it was my mother and MIL decision what they wanted to be called.

My paternal grandmother was very posh, but was always Nana to us, because her own mother was Granny to the whole family. On my mother's side it was Nan (and her mum had been Grandma). I don't agree that it's necessarily a class thing or an age thing at all.

I'm granny and both other grandmothers are grandma.

Yep 🤪

yep 🤪

Weird question- one of my grandmother was a Nana and my Mum is now a Nana. It works well to have a Grandma and a Nana for my kids when we are distinguishing which house we are visiting. I think Nana is a lovely name.

I had 2 grandmas, a grandpa and a grandad.

My mum is gran. My dad was going to be grandpa but died when my babies were 8 months old, so we never really got "into" the name.
On the other side is grandma and pops, but honestly, the kids hardly ever see them, so the names haven't really stuck.

I had a Nana and a Nanny, neither of them liked “granny”…neither of them were snobs either

I think OP is referring to the unspoken but very real class connotations of the names given to grandparents.. .. still extremely visible where I live (rural south east) .. think Sussex/West Kent with lots of money and big country houses..

Granny - Upper class
Grandma - Middle class
Nanny/Nanna - working class.

I am firmly from the bottom of that list - so will definitely be Granny just to fuck up the social order 😂

Is your sister Italian?

Fair play, if so.

Its a NANNY goat though. BTW I love goats

I'm Nanny and my mother Grandma. Kids often come up with their own name!

I had 2 Nanas.
My mum wanted to be Grandma.
She was Grandma to my eldest and Granny to my youngest (youngest moved from Grandma to Granny for some reason, and ‘Granny’ embraced it).

This is probably accurate. I was the youngest child/cousin in a working class family up north.
Husband upper middle down south and had never even heard ‘Nana’ before.
Granny came from my youngest who lives in a world of Pony Club, private school etc.
We probably fit the stereotypes you describe!

I love these!

Granny is Scotland is most definitely not upper class😀

my dm is already nana
so i feel like its taken, she herself just called me NanaEleanor, to unborn first grandchild. i feel unsure whether i want Eleanor

I’m nanny and my dgms were Nana and my dm is nanny.

I don’t like Granny or Grandma for myself. I wouldn’t say I was wc

We've never been granny or nana in my family, we're nanny.

I am Granny to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren...my daughter however chose to be Nana as did my Mum who also then became Great Nannie as time went on and more babies arrived!
Surely it's personal choice although I would never feel happy being called Nana as it sounds like the dog from Peter Pan!!! 🙄

Nana is probably easier for kids to say

How very judgemental. I chose Nana when my first grandchild was born
and I love it. They also have a Granny as that’s what she chose. My granny was a nasty old Cnut so maybe I wanted to be different. Whatever it’s not for anyone else to judge