Pickles by Brian Crane for March 11, 2013

I will accept Gramps but I draw the line at Papaw or Baboo !

I grew up only knowing my maternal grandparents; I always called them Grandpa and Grandma.

How ’bout “peepaw”?

Some Northern European languages use different words for maternal and paternal grandparents

@route66paul: Also Afghans, Turks and Bengalis use different words for maternal and paternal grandparents.

In fact, all other languages than English do, which is hardly surprising if you think about it.

The interesting thing is the similarity across many cultures in the child-word for “mother” (ama, mama, ima, etc.) It’s based on a child’s first babbling syllables. Small babies can make all the sounds of all languages until their brains start to get programmed for the one(s) they hear adults around them using. Positive reinforcements (like “He said Dadda!”) and repetition hard-wire us for one language or another.

My grand kids call me Papa, it’s the easiest for them to remember.

my grandparents were grandpa and nano. The family tried to get the first grandchild to say meemaw and it came out nano, so it stuck. :) My son calls his grandparents Grandma and Papa.

LOL LOL… You think, Nelson?

xxx

I am not your sweet Baboo!

my grandkids called me Gee (pronounced like Hee) when they were little because they could not say granny and they have a PawPaw. I have a friend that called her grandmother “Money”…….wonder why? lol

To my grandchildren, I am grammy (last name initial), because my last name is a long Polish one. The other grandmother is grammy (last name). Works out well.

With all the alternate possibilities, living arrangements, divorce, etc….. in one family I know, one Grandmother is “New Jersey Grandma”, the other, “Connecticut”. For one set of kids, I’m Poppop, and the other grandfather is “Turtle” grandpa, since he sent them a turtle sandbox long ago.

Grampy and Grammy

Both my grandfathers died before I was born. My grandmother on my father’s side was ‘Granny’, and grandmother on my mother’s side was ‘Gabba’

I guess we were rather boring, we just called ours (both sets) Grandma and Grandpa. My husband has French Canadian in his background, he called his meme and pepe.

My grandson calls me Chief ( his choice) and his grandfather Pongo.

My son tried to say “Gramp” and my dad spent the rest of his life known to my kids as, “Geep”.

Papa & Gramie

While my grandpas were Papa and Grandpa, both my grandmas were called Grandma. We always had to add their first name with it. My friend is Polish and her grandparents are “Bobcha” (spelling is wrong i know) and “Dza Dzau” (again spelling) pronounced Ja Ju

My niece and great-nephew & grand- niece call me Uncle Money but it’s not for my largess. It started when my great-nephew was small and thought – because of my handlebar mustache – that I looked like the guy on the Monopoly game. The name stuck . Everyone, on that side of the family, calls me Uncle Money.

My grandson calls me John because that’s what his momcalls me. I tell him not to, but it doesn’t seem to help.My grandparents were Oma and Ota.

My daughters called their grandparents Grandpa and Grandma and added their dogs names, Missy an Onyx. Of course, I confused them further by calling vegetables by other names so they would eat them, like broccoli was little trees. Boy was my daughter mad when she gave that as the answer in second grade! We do it to them! I am so happy my grandkids call me Grandma and him Grandpa Sonny.

I think I would like ‘Babalouie’.

My wife wanted to be Nana. I wanted to be Bo. Wife nixed it.

My mother’s parents were actually called “Big Daddy” and “Big Momma” by their grandkids well before the Tennessee Williams play came out.