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?

We have this too, with my parents being Grandma and Grandpa, and my PIL being Nan and Grandad. I'd say the named are well suited to both sets of parents. For some reason, I always think of my parents being slightly younger at heart and somehow suiting their names more.

I had a granny and a nana.

Conveniently their surnames matched the first letter.

For example Nana Nigelson and Granny Grenson. That's literally what I called them 😂. Not to their faces, then they were just Nana and Granny. I feel like it would have been too confusing to have two grannies or nanas. Actually never thought about it!

I'm a Granny in my early 70s, wear jeans, have blonde hair, can't knit or bake and I wouldn't be seen dead in Crimplene or reading a Woman's Weekly!

What are you talking about?
I had my beloved Nana and I'm in my 60's.

We have a Gran Gran and a Nanny.....who cares what they are known as? as long as small person understands!

As a step-gran, I wasn't allowed to have an honorific - only my forename. However, the grandmothers on my mum's side of the family are all "Nanny", a tradition first started by my grandmother whose first grandchildren were born in the 1950s.

On the Eastern European side of the family, great-aunts are also grandmothers...so over there I get to be Baba or Baba Weary.

This is just personal preference. I had two nannas growing up. We have a daughter now and we let each choose what they wanted to be called. My mam went for nanna and mil went for grandma. It’s a non issue.

What’s wrong with Nana? I find people really snobbish about it.

Oh yes, we have no nanas... we have no nanas today.

i think Nan is more common <<ducks>>

We have a Nana on one side and a Granny on the other, both just said what they would prefer to be called and their choice was entirely based on what their own mothers and grandmother's were called. I had a Nana and a Nanny when I was growing up.

I'm nana to my grandchildren because, I'm quite a young grandmother and my mum and mother in law are still alive so they are grandma and nanny respectively as that what my kids called them. My grandchildrens other grandmothers are also nana but followed by their name. It for me was easy for them to say and not to confuse them by their mother calling her grandparents by the same name! No class issue involved! Just affection.

I am Grandma, however my maternal grandmother was Babushka (Russian)!! My paternal grandmother was Nanny.

Isn't it just regional? In my family they've been Nana for generations.

Nana was my great grandmother. That’s what my mother called her, as her grandmother. Starting in 1949. So I don’t think this is an indication of anything.

I also think it's a bit of a class thing. Posh = granny. Working class = nanny/nana.

I don’t understand the issue! My mum is a nana simply because my granny is still alive so my mum wanted her own sort of identity. Plus most grandmothers want something different from the other grandmother!

We have a Grannie and a Nanna

I’m nanny, I had a Nan and and nanny when I was growing up.

my children came along and unfortunately my mum was no longer with us, and MIL wanted granny. That’s was fine, I didn’t mind she be called what she liked. Trouble was she was the world’s worst MIL and was only a granny when it suited her. When my grandchildren came along I just said no to granny I would love nanny or Nan. DIL mum said she would like nana so I said lovely that makes me nanny everyone happy and there’s no granny

That really stinks. I asked what the “blood” grandmas wanted to be called, neither of them chose Granny so I said I’d have it. The parents then started calling me Granny Myname whereupon I asked if the kids had got another granny. Obviously the answer was no so I said just Granny works fine then.

In Punjabi culture, Nani (feminine) & Nana (Masculine) are the parents of the Mum, your Babi & Baba are the parents of the Father. Use this system, it's better and simpler then a generic Grandad/Grandma.

A lot of it seems to be country-specific or regional. Every Scottish person I have known has had a granny. In Essex, it was nan. In Norfolk it's nanny. In the home counties, I've heard grandma and gran a lot.

Northern WC class here - we had Grandma "Smith" and Grandma "Jones" back in the 50's-70's. Not sure what the trend there is now.

My very MC, midlands, ex MIL was "Gran" to all her GCs. I think I'll opt for "Gran" (if I get a choice) as it doesn't seem as old, to me, as Grandma or Granny.

all of the "N" alternatives just seem alien to me so I wouldn't naturally go for them

Im granny. nanny and Suki

My grandchildren arent from birth children so I leave them to decide.

Grandad is grandad to all of them

Absolutely no way was I going to be called granny…it reminds me of elderly ladies! Im nanny/nana and i would rather have been my actual name!