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?

I could see Nonna becoming quite trendy in nappy valley. Not so much Grossmutter.

i have a nanny and Bampi

my mum is nana and dad is grandad

i feel like granny is for really really old grannies 🤣🤣🤣

my dm isnt common
and neither am i, nor my ds

My kids call their great granny 'granny Percy pig' we are half Scottish so granny has always been our go to🤣

Like the tellytubbie?

The late Queens I and II Were known as Granny. If it's good enough for them.. it's good enough for me.
I'm known as Granny.. as was my Mum and her Mum.
Best feeling in world when my Grandkids call me Granny.

Nana is not 'common' ANYwhere. It's only common in the opinion of a few wannabe middle classes on Mumsnet who think they're better than they are.

One of mine was Nanna. The other was Grandma.
Nanna was nice - she lived with us, she babysat sometimes, she played games with us, and gave us little treats. She was very missed when she died.
Grandma wanted as little to do with us as possible, or any of her other grandchildren. She didn't do smiles or laughter. She once reluctantly babysat but deferred the responsibility to her boyfriend at the time.
In her later years she wondered why her children and grandchildren didn't want to see her.

Agree and Nan is worse.

I love granny and use it :) I cannot stand nan even if someone asks me
How my nan is. I don’t have a nan? I have a gran. As pps say it’s just personal preference. I hear some people say they think granny makes them sound old, but I think nan is a bit chavy. Personal preference x

Only on MN…..🙄

I had a Nana and a Grandma. I thought it was odd that my cousins had two Grandmas, and slightly pitied them for it. Though now I think about it, they were the youngest on both sides of their families, so maybe the two Grandmas were independent decisions that then came together.

My grandmothers were Granny Ermentrude and Granny Florence. I expected to use a similar nomenclature when first grandchild was born. Unfortunately the other grandmother has the same first name as me! Consequently, after a conversation with other grandmother before she was born, I am Grandma and she is Nana. Both granddads are Granddad as they can be Granddad Percival and Granddad Galahad.

All of my maternal side (Asian mixed race) are nanas.
My mum is nana and my dad is papa. On my husbands side his mum is grandma and his grandma is GG.
Id never want to be granny, reminds me of my dads elderly, cantankerous mother.

My side: "Nanny is the goat."
His side: "Nanny is the member of staff."
😂

Well, if Granny was good enough for the Queen?
I will leave it there.
I did ask my sister why she didn't go for "Nonna" the Italian version of granny and she thought for a minute and said she had forgotten it was an option.
She is one of those inverted snobs, though :-)

My mum is granny to my son and nanny to my sisters children.

it doesn’t matter what they are called Aslong as they are in the child’s life and being a good grandparent

Plummeting towards the bottom of what exactly?

Disclaimer: not expecting an answer as OP won’t be back.

EDIT: OP came back🤣

Plummeting to the bottom of what?! A joke, I hope...

She posted at the same time 😂

I really dislike Nanny and Nana, but I guess it depends what you grew up with and is probably location based more than anything. I had 2 grannies, my kids have a granny and a grandma.

I asked my Granny when I was wee why I didn't call her Nana (like my friends did), and she said to me, 'because I'm not a dog' 😂

Thought this was going to be a thread about an unwell relative!

Well yes if the royal family use it then we all should, what a fine upstanding example of family bliss they all are.

Only when you're really bored on a Saturday night.