Pickles by Brian Crane for January 22, 2024

Paypa.

My grandkids call my Husband Boompa.

Mine was Pappy.

My mother’s father was “Papa”… but my Dad’s was “Bomp” (rhymes with “tromp”). Both, I was told, names that were given them by their first child… as interpreted, I now believe, by adults who wanted to hear something cute.

I consider ‘Grandpa’ an honourific and don’t have time for the cutesy names….

My neighbors grandson blessed me everyday when I got home with his presence, until his papa (grandfather) got home. I had nothing BUT we got along. Now I miss him!

Ah, of the old pull my finger generation

Ok so you spell it grandpa but who really pronounces it that way? When I was a kid we pronounced it grampa, and grandma was pronounced gramma.

Bestefar.

Vo or Avo with a symbol that looked like an arrow pointing up over the O, don’t know how to make foreign language letters, Portuguese from the Azores, grandmother same letters but with an accent mark over the O.

“Papa George.”

My father mixes it up by signing birthday cards, “From Grandma and Grampa.”

Grandma remarried, I called her Grandma, called him Vincent.

Mine was Papap! A hard working coal miner, and a fine man!

Opa….

That calls for a fist-boomp, er bump.

In the Jimmy Stewart film, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, one of Jimmy’s grandsons called him “Boompa” and Jimmy’s character hated it.

Mine were Grandpa and Granddaddy.

My nephew called my dad Pop Pop and my mom Monamomma. One day my mom asked if I’d try and teach my nephew to say Grandpa because my dad hates being called pop or pop pop. So for maybe 40 minutes I work with him (my nephew not my dad because my dad can say grandpa with no help anywhooo)… my nephew refuses to say Grandpa. I could get him to say Grand… I could get him to say Pa. Mash the two together, it was like getting my mother in law to stop dropping some invisible R in the word Washington (It came out Warshington!) :D

Occasionally I got him to say Grandpa. Then my dad would walk by and I’d ask the trouble maker… who is that? And he says Pop Pop. Well eventually I gave up. Next day he’s saying Grandpa (me shaking head). I asked the air when the did that happen? My brother says about 10 minutes after you left. You would think my mom would be happy with this. She wasn’t, because not only did I get him to say Grandpa he also started to say Grandma… and she was Monamoma no more.

I, as a kid especially, pretty much always called my grandparents “Grampa and Gramma”. But if/when I wrote it, it would always be “Grandpa and Grandma”.

I bet he was a gas.

Besides, has Earl ever shown himself to be grand?

Everything is fine as long as Nelson doesn’t address him as the Earl of Pickles…

Earl, are you sure it wasn’t ‘Bhoompa’?

It does not matter what we, as grandparents, expect to be called. The child makes the decision. That’s why, instead of being Granddad, I am Peebah. (A much cooler name!)

“Boompa” was what they called Jimmy Stewart’s character in “Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation.” Great movie. Typical Jimmy Stewart humor.

I only knew one of mine and he was granddaddy. I am papaw.

Why, in MY day…

Different times FOR SURE..!!!!

My grandfather was always called “Pap-pap” when we were little, then just “Pap” when we got older.

The reverse is actually true: Grandpa and grandma are the traditional, time-honored monikers. Many in the Boomer generation can’t handle the truth and make up ridiculous names for themselves,

Guess it’s all in the spelling…

All these nicknames seem weird to me. Mine were Grandma [last name] and Grandpa [last name]. And Great-Grandpa [last name] and Grand-Aunt [first name, to distinguish between sisters].

My mother’s mother was GrandMOM. The woman in question didn’t care, but my mother was emphatic about it. My paternal grandmother was Grandma. Again, she didn’t care what we called her.

We always said their last names, which is weird. We don’t do that with aunts and uncles. Plus, the last names can change. My mom’s ex-mother in-law was married 4 times that I know of. The first marriage resulted in Mom’s ex-husband. By the time I came around both had remarried, and now Grandma X was Grandma Y, and there was a Grand X 2.0. Grandma Y stayed Grandma Y through the other 2 marriages.

Seriously confusing.

My mother-in-law was Nana-something that the oldest grandkid started and NOT because they were from the south. My husband never called his grandmother Nana. He called her Grandma Lily. Seriously what is up with my family using last names.

Mom herself never cared what my girls or my sister’s boys called her. The boys called her “Granny” and my girls called her “Grandma”.

I know someone who is called Boompa by his grandchildren. My sister and brother in law are Mimi and Pop Pop.

Farfar and Morfar. Swedes make a distinction between paternal or maternal grandparents. Grand mother is Farmor and Mormor. Since all my grandkids are children from my daughers, I am Morfar to them. The tradition is fading with each generation as the family assimilates.

As long as the word is spoken with love, who cares?

I called my grandfather “Alfred”. He didn’t like to be called “Einstein”.

My Grandfather was called “Buppa” in his family

I only knew my maternal grandmother and think that I called her “gramma”. My grandkids call me “Papa” and my wife “gramma”. I don’t care for Paw-paw and other southern varieties. But as long as I get to see my grandkids I really don’t care. When I retired in 2012 we moved from sunny Florida to cold Western PA to be close to our 2 granddaughters.

I never corrected my grandkids and let them call me what they wanted.

Wish I had had either grandfather had been around when I was kid. :-/

There is a local restaurant called “Grampa’s” because that is the family name, but everyone calls it “Grandpa’s”

My grand kids call me “Muddy”!

LOL! Love it!

Earl is holding a knife – so Grandpa it is!

Grandson calls me “Papa”.

Lots of variations. I’m Papa, my Dad was Gramps, my Wife’s Dad was Bumpa

I called mine Pompa. He was born in 1878. A Dane from Struer Denmark. Amazing man.

My parents were supposed to be Granny and Grandpaw but my first said Nanny and Paw Paw so that’s what they became to him and my second child.

The youngest grandchild called me Caca (kaka?). Then she upgraded to CawCaw which was closer to the MawMaw/PawPaw that others favored. And lately she’s been going with PawPaw. I was good with any or all of it. She can do no wrong.

(Others think she can, but they are obviously mistaken. Now when she turns three next week…. We shall see.)

I called my grandfather Pop-Pop But my older brother couldn’t say "Grandma " when he was a little boy . He called her “Pahkah” .So my siblings , cousins & I called my grandparents "Pahkah & Pop Pop "

It is in the dictionary.

Wish I had known mine.

During the years all my grandchildren lived far away, I became known [to some] as ‘California Grandma’. I no longer live there, but the name has stuck even though those grands now live back in SoCal. A few years ago, my closest [a mile away] began calling me ‘GramJams’ for some reason; I’m fortunate to have 8 fabulous grandkids. [I had only one living set of grandparents and a great-grandma who I don’t remember meeting.]

My brother and I are both Poppy. Third generation

I think I’ll just mosey over to Rose Gumbo’s place and see if Meemaw is around…

I ask my grandchildren to call me “grumpy.” Then they call me “grumpy grandpaw” for a while. Everybody, including us, has cats &/or dogs so that’s why I use “paw.”

When my oldest niece was little, she sort of swallowed the first vowel so it was something like “Grrnpa” and “Grrnma.” But if you, the adult, tried to say it back to her, she looked at you like you had 2 heads.

We had Grandma (pronounced Gra’ma) and Grandpa (pronounced Gran’pa) followed by lastnames for the four of them and Dad’s maternal grandma. Mom’s paternal grandma was Granny because that’s what Mom called her as a kid.

I never heard ‘Boompa’ until I moved to Arizona. Tucson car dealer Jim Click had his dad on commercials and called him Boompa. Both my grandpa’s died when I was so young, I don’t remember them. My nephews and niece called my parents “Mom-mom” and Pop-pop.

My grandparents were Mama and Papa Alley. I knew Papa Alley’s first name but not Mama Alley’s. But I’d never call them by their first name’s.

Grandpa is fine, but I usually go by Grampa.