What did/do you call your grandmother?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Mine recently passed but I always called her by name. My other one whas Grandma. The fiancée's nephew calls his Nona - how bout you?

[Kellanved]

1. same here

My maternal Grandmother goes by her name, as did my great-grandmother.
On the paternal side it was "Oma".

[Danmel]

2. Bubbie

I called my mother's mom Bubbie, the Yiddish word for grandmother. My kids called my mom Bubbie too but sadly she passed away. My kids call my husband's mother Grandma.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. My stepbrother and sister called there's Grandma Pussycat - cause she

always called them "pussycat"

[REP]

3. Count Hagula

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. "The Uber Hammer" is what I always thought of my great garandmother

[REP]

9. Both My Grandmothers Were Mean Women

Count Hagula was mean and creepy, but she did teach me fun things like registering as an independent (in open primary states) and then voting for the wackiest R candidate in the primaries. She was born in 1896 in Iowa, and when she voted for FDR, she said that up there they'd heard of a Democrat, but had never actually seen one before. She was also college educated, quite unusual for women of that era.

She was still a bitch on stick, though.

[baldguy]

4. Mutti

That's "Mommy" in German.

[burythehatchet]

13. and close to the Hindi word for grandmother, Mati

[WildClarySage]

7. Grammy.

[Jessica]

23. Hey WV!!

I called one grandma "Ma" - and the other one, I don't know why, but I simply called her by her last name - something usually saved for your college buddies. Weird, I know. But I was a strange kid.

[BlondieK143]

8. Nana.

:) she's my grandmother on my dad's side and the one I'm closest to.

[izzie]

10. Nana

both gone now. Every one calls me Auntie even my grandchildren.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

11. I called my grandmother nana

[SheilaT]

12. Nanny.

That was my mother's mother. My other grandmother died when I was five, and I don't know what I called her, probably Grandma because that's how we've always referred to her when talking about her.

[underpants]

24. Nanny here too-on my mother's side of the family

Grandmother on the other side

[SheilaT]

37. And Poppy.

That was my grandfather. They were from Ireland, and have been gone for a very long time (he passed away in 1960, she in 1972) and I wish I could have gotten to know them better. I'm so sorry I saw them so rarely in their lifetimes. But we lived in upper New York State, and they lived on Long Island, and back then, prior to the opening of the Thruway, it was a long way to go. Then we moved out to Tucson in 1962, and Nanny came out to visit for a couple of months, then returned to LI, and I don't think I ever saw her again. How sad.

[underpants]

43. Pappaw and Nanny --Grand Mother and Grandpa

:-)

[XNASA]

52. Me too.

My Dad's Mom is called Nanny. Her husband is called Pa.

Nanny & Pa.

[LiberalEsto]

14. Nannu

That's an Estonianized version of Nana.

My daughters and some of their cousins called my husband's late mother Menke -- a name thought up by one of the cousins when she was very young.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. Is that pronounced the way Mork pronounced it?

[LiberalEsto]

16. Was Mork some TV character?

I'm not much of a tv watcher, never have been.

Estonian language emphasises the first syllable of a word. Pronunciation is NANN-oo.

[Lavender Brown]

17. Both of mine were Nonnas

:loveya:

[pdx_prog]

44. Nonna

is Italian....

We have a great Italian place here called Nonna Emilia's

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. "Josh Strength."

She beats me when she gets the 'roid rage. :cry:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. I call my stepgrandmother WhitacreD_WI

[babylonsister]

19. Mimi. nt

[bif]

20. Dead

But when she was alive, Busha.

[Left Is Write]

22. Both of my grandmothers were "Gramma." (nt)

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

25. Grandma

I called both of them grandma. My dad's mom passed away when I was 11. My mom's mom is still alive. She'll be 90 in May. She's the only grandparent I have left. All my great grandparents died when my parents where still kids, so I never met them. My mom's dad died when she was 16, so I never got to meet him either. My dad's dad died when I was 8.

My parents were both born when their moms were right around 40, so there's a tremendous age gap in my family. I'm 25 and my only grandparent is almost 90. Most people I've met that are my age have great grandparents that are that are in their 90's and their actual grandparents are in their 70's.

[terrya]

26. My Mom's mom I called "cunt", because that's what she was.

She was a hateful thing who made my mom's life miserable. Emotional abuse...belittling my mother all the time. I didn't shed one fucking tear when that evil piece of shit died. Not one.

My other grandmother...my dad's mom...I called grandma.

[Beware the Beast Man]

27. I'm alerting!!!!

You used a dity word! :P

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

28. My Mother called my Grandmother "Kerosene Annie" cause she always

was threatening to burn people to death

[terrya]

29. I tried to come up with another word, beastman. But, well...

"cunt" is the only thing that can best describe her.

Ah, my first alert. :-)

[Beware the Beast Man]

36. I'll give you a pass.

Sometimes, it's not a sexist thing, it's the only word that applies. I understand.

[terrya]

40. Thank you.

That woman inflicted a lot of emotional shit on my mother. And, quite frankly, if there is a hell, I hope my grandmother is in it.

I don't like feeling like that, but there you are.

[Jessica]

30. I can understand this ...

I feel this way about my grandfather on my Dad's side. He's a white supremacist bastard who treats his entire family like shit. I too will not shed a tear when the prick is gone - the world will be better off.

I used to feel guilty about feeling this way, but fuck it. So - I hear ya.

[MissMillie]

31. Memere (my mother's mom)

Pronounced "MEM-air"

My father's mom was "Mammy" (we had a hard time saying "grammy" so we said "Mammy")

[Jersey Devil]

49. Same here

She explained it as a French term of endearment, as opposed to Grandmere, much more formal.

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. I called them "Grandma" followed by their name...My kids called them Nonny

and Poppy. They call my husband's mom Grandma and then her surname. :hi:

[NamVetsWeeLass]

33. Mom's Mother is Gran--- Dad's was Nina (said Nine AH)

My Mother is MooMaw to my kids. My Boy calls his Paternal Grandmother Grammy and My Youngest calls Her Paternal Grandma "Ganny"

[CO Liberal]

34. I Only Knew One Of My Grandmothers

My mother's mother died when I was a baby. My father's mother was always "Grandma" to me and my sisters. Both of our grandfathers were "Grandpa".

It was different for my kids. Their mother's father died before they were born, so they only had one grandfather - my dad. They called him "Pop", because my sone was the oldest grandchild and that's what he started calling my dad - his sister and cousins followed his lead. My mother was always "Grandma" to my kids - they called their other grandmother "Gigi", because she didn't want to be called "Grandma" - she came up with "Gigi" as an abbreviation for "Glamorous Grandmother".

[demnan]

35. Gaga - and when joking, Granny

I think the Gaga came from my oldest brother's very early attempts to say grandma. :)

Granny when she was cooking (like the Beverly Hillbillies), as in, "Hey Granny, what you cooking up, a possum?"

[Dookus]

38. Mom-mom

[yvr girl]

39. Grandma and Granddad on one side

Nana and Pop on the other

[Feathered Fish]

41. Nonnie - I miss you!

She died a few years back - god she was the best.
:cry:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

42. Gramma Bratcher, Gramma Pauline, Gramma Bussard...

My family was really hung up on proper names and roles.
Duckie

[woofless]

45. MiMi Ethel.

Heaven knows why.

[sherrem]

46. Grammy Toodles

My kids call her "Great Grandma Noodles"

[pagerbear]

47. Maternal: Grandma

Paternal: Granny

[Shoeempress]

48. Mom's Mom, Gram, Dad's Mom we did not speak to or about.

[djeseru]

50. My grandmomie is still here

but my grandma passed away in 1991.

[DrZeeLit]

51. Called mine what sounded like "gramma" but my step-grandson calls me

Grandma Zee... and the "grandma" always sounds like "gramma."
Soooo I'm Gramma Zee.
What fun!

Oh, I had both grandmothers, so we added their names: Grandma Jenny was one and Grandma Mary was the other.

[Crunchy Frog]

53. One was called Nana.

The other was called Meemaw(sp).