Grand dad and Grand pa

[kayakamina]

Blessed with numerous grandchildren spread all over the world, I am called Grand Pa or Grand Papa everywhere except the North of England where it is always Grand Dad. Any idea why that is?

[mandie73]

my son has scottish and english grandpareants,im english his dads a scots.his english ones are grandmother n grandad where his scots ones are grandpa n grandma! im northern also by the way and ive always said grandad and nan!!

[dot.hawkes]

greting card companies actualy base their distribution of their product on the regional variations of these terms, for instance, in a Lancashire shop, they will only send a dozen grandpa xmas cards, but several 100 grandad ones.

[Dan Glebitts]

i call me parentts mums 'nana' and (if they were still alive) call my parents dads 'grandad'. Always have and always will....

[Kay]

My grandson calls me "Nan" and my hubby Gramps. My parents were "Nana and Pa" to all their grandkids. My inlaws chose "Gran and Grampy" when my kids came along.

[polo_tottie]

um... well my english grandparents were Grandma and Nonno (try finding a card in a shop that says 'nonno'!)

and my Croation grandparents were Bacca Lela and Deda Vlado (don't know about the spelling as i don't speak/write croatian... and I never knew them - i just had to call them something! lol)

[gen2]

I was born on the South coast of England and called both my male grandparents 'grand dad'. I moved to Scotland at the age of 18 and my Scottish grand children call me grand dad as well, so there doesn't seem to be a North - South divide in this case.

I did use two different terms for my female grandparents and that was to distinguish which one was being referred to (Gran and Nan). The distinction wasn't needed on the male side since one grandfather died when I was 6 years old.

[annavc]

I grew up in Scotland but my mothers parents were English (from Cheshire) and I called them Granny and Grandpa. My fathers mother was Irish and she was Granny Campbell, his father was Scottish but died many years before I was born so we never called him anything.

[Pippa68]

I am the same as gen2 ~ born & bred in the south, both male grandparents were 'grandad' (with their first names to follow if they were in the same room!) and the female grandparents were 'nan' or 'nanny'. My great grandmother was 'Gran'

To complicate matters, my biological fathers mum was known as 'Grandma' and his father was 'Grandpa' My mum is Grandma to my children, but the other grandmother is known as Nanna. It was all down to the personal preference of the grandparents.

My northern friends mum is known as 'Nanny' so it can't see it being a North/South thing either!

[caz21]

My cousin always called my Grandma "Nana" and i hated it, it sounded like the dog from peter pan! i think it is american!

[ronnie3]

where i live its mostly nanna and grandad but there is a few people who are grandma and grandpa and they are usually the posh ones

[queenie.01]

My children call my parents (who are scottish) Little Granny and Granda. My ex-husbands parents (who are english) are Big Granny and Grandpa. Their Grandpa's father was Little Grandpa and their Big Granny's father was Big Grandpa.

It sounds very confusing but they did not have any problems and everybody knew who they were talking about.

By the way the 'Big' and 'Little' refer to heights not size.

[miss_me]

all my family are welsh and i have a Nana and Granddad and a Nain and Taid (pronounced 'nine' and 'tide')

[clarabel82]

we say Nanny and Nandad, only heard of one other person saying Nandad though! I'm from Birmingham.