Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for October 11, 2014

Pasquale is old enough to address his grandmother properly. Not with baby-talk phrases like “Meemaw.”Where did the writer come up with this word? I had never heard of it until I began reading this strip.

Big change in Rose’s yoga outfit.

I agree. In fact the Swedes use the equivalent of mothermother, motherfather, fathermother, and fatherfather in place of maternal and paternal grandparents. “Meemaw” sounds like mothermother. My father’s mother insisted I call her the Polish equivalent of “Granny” (Babci)

My grandson calls me Nan. My stepkids from second marriage called me Notthemama. Don’t know yet what my great-granddaughter will call me.

I tried to call my grandfather’s second wife as grandma and my mother jumped with an assertive NO.

Indeed. My 2 grandmothers were known as “Miggy” and “MumMum”.

Seriously? It’s a comic strip. Why don’t you go outside and get some fresh air?

I guess this is an educational experience, then. I have never heard anyone use this term, even people from the South (as someone claimed this name is from). They always said “Grandma”; that was how we were told to address our grandmothers. We were taught to respect our grandparents.To each his/her own, I suppose.

I am Grandpapa to our grandkids and extras that I am grandfather to. Wife is either Grandmama or Nonia depending on the grandkids. It all depends on family.

Be happy you have grandparents, never got to know my dads side and my mothers both past away when i was 13 and now im 37. To be griping about what other people call their own family members is ridiculous, they can call their family members anything they want, its not anyone else’s DAM business. Be happy for what you have! And respect? you seem to have little for others.

My oldest cousin could not say Grandma and Grandpa, it came out Bumma and Bumpa. That is what all 10 of us grandkids called them

Sorry, I didn’t realize this was such a touchy subject! I just wanted to know the origin of the term.Like I said, I have met people from the South, plus I have worked with the public for years, and have never heard this term used. The first time I read it here, I looked it up on an online dictionary site and could not find a definition.Years ago this strip always had Pasquale speaking in baby-talk, which Rose would repeat so the readers could understand what he was saying. I figured this was leftover from that period.Whatever.

Yeah, both my kids still call my mom meemom and they are 17 and 20, and i suspect they will all their lives. It’s not babyish- it’s simply their name for her, and a term of endearment. My dad was pappap til he passed. Hub’s parents were/are granddad and grandma k.

My maternal grandmother was Aggie to all four grandkids, as well as everybody else.

One of my sister’s retired coworker’s husband was known as Big Daddy to everyone. What relation was he to me? Absolutely none. BTW, the coworker was known as Nurse Anne, but she is a nurse.

I called my grandmother Meemaw until she died at 99!

Little kids always translate “grandma” to whatever the can say at the time. My grandson’s other grandma is “Gonya”.

In my family, we have Grandma, Mamaw, Nana, Ma, and Sugar.