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The spell checker in Firefox is currently detecting Nanna to be correct to Nana. My question is, in ...
Etymonline also notes that nanna is also a Greek word for aunt. Grandma has similar origins. The word mama is a child's form of mother. In languages like German and English, the parents of one's parents have the grand- prefix applied to create their names. The original form of grandma was grandmama (18th century, OED).
There are two main possibilities. 1) "Grandmama" is simply "baby talk" for "grandma" -- a family's term of affection. 2) "Grandmama" is intended to mean "great grandmother". Many languages and dialects have such contrived terms for great grandparents. – Hot Licks.
Both exist, apparently. The NOAD, says. granddad |ˈgranˌdad| (also grandad) noun informal - one's grandfather. ...
Sometimes, albeit rarely, we will spell the familial relation word differently for each grandparent (grandpa/grandma vs grampa/gramma), but the pronunciation is the same for both sides of the family. When I am with an individual grandparent, I often omit the last name and just say “Grandma” or “Grandpa.”
29. "Dad" is a specific reference (when you say it you mean somebody different from when I say it), so it gets capitalized like any proper noun. On the other hand, "dad" is a common noun meaning "father" (anybody's). You only use disambiguators like "my" or "a" with common nouns ("my dad", but not "my Dad" just like you wouldn't say "my John ...
For the case of my North American dialect, they are pronounced very differently from one another. While the pronunciation of the 'nd' in grandma can vary from /n/ to /nd/ to /m/, and the final syllable in grandma can vary from /ɑ/ to /ə/ (even within the same family), most native North Americans will pronounce the final syllable of grammar with a very distinct syllabic r sound.
Since English has never made a distinction between maternal and paternal grandparents, less formal terms such as nan/nanna will not do so either. Gran, for instance, was my paternal grandfather, but many people call their grandmothers that. To my cousins (father's brother's children) he was Papa, and their mother's mother was Nanna.
The Mamie, Nellie, Bellie, Mattie, Nannie, Sallie, Fannie, Jennie, Minnie, Virgie, Lollie, Mellie line of pet names may do for the ittie, tootsie, pootsie, pupils of an infant school, but when young ladies have reached years of discretion, entitling them to take the responsible position of teachers in our public schools, they should drop these ...
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you. I heard this recited on a BBC radio broadcast in the ’70s or ’80s (much to the consternation of my late mother-in-law).