Am I boring for just calling mine "Grandma?"

[anagramofbrat]

So while I was at the reunion last Saturday I was thinking about how a lot of people have interesting names for their grandparents, as one of my aunt's grandkids call her "Honeybunch." (Actually, almost everyone does, I think our family's kind of the exception for calling her Aunt Doreen.) She's not an anomoly - before Mom passed, my nieces and nephews called her Mema (Little Roy couldn't pronounce "G-ma"), my aunt's grandkids call my aunt "Noonie" and my Mom's grandmother was known as "Nonnie" to the whole family. (My own grandmother on that side was just "Grandma Ruth.")

I don't think we were as creative with the grandfathers. The aforementioned nieces and nephews call Dad "Granddad." My own were dead long before I showed up.

What did/do y'all call your grandparents?

[xposted to blackfolk and Facebook]

Comments

[bellarisa.livejournal.com]

My grandmother, Olivia, has "Mama Libby" since her first grandchild in 1962. My oldest is named after her :). My grandfather was called Pahpoo, no idea why...

[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

My own were pretty boring: my mother's parents were Granny and Granddaddy (we are Southern, after all), and my dad's parents were Grandmother and Grandfather to me and my brother. (I remember the spoiled rotten cousins calling them something else, maybe Grandma and Grandpa. My dad was always treated differently.)
My mom hated 'Grandma' and said she'd never want to be called that. Except I *think* her grandchildren call her Memaw, which is waaaay dumber sounding.

[badrahessa.livejournal.com]

Gramma Betty

.... didn't hear about all these other variations : nana, nan, bemaa, Mawmaw , etc ... till I came to the south ...

[stefka.livejournal.com]

We were pretty boring. Both sets were Grandma and Grandpa. If you had to differentiate, you would add the last name, or at least the initial.

[booboo-berr.livejournal.com]

i call mine extinct.. when alive my grandma on my dad's side was Grandma-J, her hubby my step grandpa was Grandpa-Bill. My grandma on my mom's side was "nanny".

[aersi.livejournal.com]

My mum's parents were Nana and Bampa, but my mum had called her grandparent's Nana and Bampa so maybe it was just continuing.
My dad's parents are Ammy (Since my sister couldn't say Grammy and Ammy thought is was very individual) and Grandpa Harold. He died when my Da was 12 though, so none of us knew him enough to name him.

My niece calls my Da Poppy, and refers to my Mum as Gramma. My little cousins call my aunt Mimi.

[firinel.livejournal.com]

I called my maternal grandparents Grandma and Poppy. I called my er, my mother's father's mother Mammy. I didn't know my paternal grandparents, or great-grandparents. My grandmother dated a woman for.. gosh, twenty-thirty years, and even after they stopped living together (right before I was born) the families stayed close, and we called her Meemaw.

Marn called his maternal grandparents Grandad and Granmama, his paternal grandparents Nanny and Grandpa, and his father's mother's mother Nono or Nain (which, rather than being something more individual like it may seem, is just Welsh for Grandmother). Alex isn't about atm for me to ask.

Riordon calls my mother Grandma, called my step-father Papa John, and my grandma she calls Nannie, Marn's parents Granpa Mike & Grandma Liz, Alex's parents Grandad (Irvine) and Grandma Angela. Marn's parents have explicitly asked to be referred to by their names - Marn even called them Mike & Liz, not Mom & Dad or anything like that.

[harinezumi.livejournal.com]

I called mine the pretty standard Russian equivalents of Grandma and Grandpa: бабуля (babulia) and дедуля (dedulia). They stayed in Russia when we immigrated, and I don't think any of them ever spoke more than a few words of English.

[anangelssilence.livejournal.com]

Grandma [first name] and Grandpa [first name]...

Kaylee calls my dad Papa and Nigel's mom is Gigi.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Grammy Kay/Grammy B and Grandpa Bill/Grandpa Ron.

[htl-1126.livejournal.com]

Babi (pronounced bobby) for my grandmother because I couldn't say Babci when I was very little. And Dzadzu for grandfather. One of my best friends grandparents were Meme and Pepe and that is about it. =)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Gram on Mom's side, Gramma on Dad's.

Grandpa Ken on Dad's side, and Daddy on Mom's side because he died when Mom was four and she only ever referred to him as Daddy.

[oneforellis.livejournal.com]

Vau and Gramps.
Vau being how my family spells our complete bastardization of the Portuguese avó or vovó We shorten it to a "vaw" pronounced like saw. Does that make any sense? I don't know but it stuck like hell and now everyone calls her that, be they family or not.