How did you refer to your grandparents?

Grandma and Grandpa plus their first names for both sets.

I only had one grandma alive when I was born so it was just "Grandma".

I like what they do in Norway. Mor is mother, Far is Father, so Paternal Grandfather is Far Far or fathers father, paternal grandmother is far mor or fathers mother and so on. It was quite clear.

in the past tense, them being dead and all.....

One set was Mom & Dad, the other was Maw & PawPaw. Upper south.

Gone

Donk.

Oma and Opa: German I guess, unless they made it up as a joke.

Northeast. We did what you did, OP.

Grandma and Grandpa Jones and Grandma and Grandpa Smith.

Grandma and Grandpa on my mom's side. Mamaw and Papaw on my dad's side. My dad was from eastern Kentucky.

Paternal: Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw

Maternal: Big Momma and Grandpa August

Nana & Pop. I was told I used Pop was because I couldn’t easily say Grandad which was more usual.

Grandma (First Name) and Grandpa (First Name) for both sides, Manhattan Jews and Maryland (DC burbs) Episcopalians.

My mother's grandfather (my great-grandfather) was alive till I was 12 and we called him "Opa" (German for grandfather) -- his parents were from Germany and that's what my mother called him so my brother and I did too.

Nana and Grandad on both sides.

nonna and nonno (Italian)

Your Majesty Queen of Sheba to my grandmother's face, and Grandpa to my grandfathers's faces (I had 3). Referred to grandfathers in the third person as "Grandpa _______" (first name)

Your Majesty and Your Highness.

I did the whole Grammy and Poppie thing on both sides. Grandma and Grandpa later I guess but still let Grammy and Poppie slip at times.

granny and grandma

The drunk and the sow

Grandma and Grandpa. Italian and Irish mix, NYC tri-state area born and raised. No such thing as using last names or first names, people on TV with bland white accents did that.

How did you distinguish them when you were talking about them to your immediate family R20, so that they knew which "Grandma" you were talking about?

Gram. the only one left.

Mam ma and Pap pa.

Dead, and Six Feet Under.

Was just going to post that, r21.

Dad's folks were Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop. Mom's folks were Mom-Mom and Whoopie. Dad's mother died when I was pretty young, so there was no confusion. As I got older, I decided on my own to go with Grandma and Grandpa for Mom's folks. Pop-Pop remained Pop-Pop for the rest of his life.

Gleep Glop and Gam Gam the ho

Grandma and Grandpa [last name] on both sides. From the Midwest.

Ming-mong and Ping-pong.

Like they were pandas.

Widowed material grandmother "Grandma Nanny," paternal grandmother "Grandma Toots," paternal grandfather 'Pappa Daddy."

R26 just gave us the title of our next incest porn - Makin’ Whoopie

[quote] Widowed material grandmother "Grandma Nanny,"

She was a material girl!

Lolo and Lola, which come from abue[bold]lo[/bold] and abue[bold]la[/bold] (Filipino)

Nana and Grandpa, my great-grandmother was called Nana Next Door, because she lived next to my grandparents, natch.

I live outside of Atlanta (grew up in NYC) and the cows that I work with call their grandparents Mee Maw and Pee Paw. That's what their grandkids call them too

Molesters

Fuckface and Sowcunt.

TweedleDee and TweedleDrunk.

Grandmama and Grandpapa for my paternal grandparents. Granny and Grandad for my maternal grandparents.

Mother was Sicilian: Grandmother was Nona (no Grandfather) Father was Portuguese: Grandmother was eVau or VaVa (vauvau) Grandfather was Vovo (voovoo)

Nana for my maternal grandmother, the only one still living when I was a kid. Boston.

My grandparents were all from Syria, and we called them Judo (him) and Teahteah (her.) Some of my Syrian cousins call their grandmother Sittee.

Paternal: Grandma and Grandpa

Maternal: a made up name based on my older brother’s mispronunciation of “nana” as a child.

G-Ma and G-Pa.

Paternal - Grandma (first name) & Grandpa (first name) - Californians/Episcopalians

Maternal - Mom Mom & Papa (he died when I was 3) - Southerners

Granny and Papa

It amazes me so many people do not want to be called "Grandma" and Grandpa," and would rather be known by some weird infantile name.

For no reason we can figure out, father's side was Grandma/Grandpa with their last name while mother's side was Grandma/Grandpa with their first name. This extended to all the relatives on both sides.

You called your Uncles and Aunts on one side "Uncle Smith" and "Aunt Smith," r48, as if you were a character in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss? COOL

So those of you who called your grandparents "Grandma Smith"

1. Did you call them that every time you addressed them? (e.g., "May I please have another slice of pie Grandma Smith?")

2. Did you only see them occasionally?

I ask because I rarely called them anything other than "Grandma" or "Grandpa" in face to face conversation. "Grandma First" was more if I was asking my mother if she was coming to our house for dinner, etc.

I saw my NYC-based grandparents very often (at least once a week, usually more) and MD-based ones about once every two months or so growing up.

Mine were Grandpa Joe and Grandma Clye (they lived in OK) and Big Daddy and Grandma Hoover (they lived in AR) I hope these names don't give away my identity!

Nanna maternal and Grandmother paternal . My family is Texan, but my Dad’s mum was from London.. Both Grandfathers had passed before I was born.

I never knew my grandfathers as my paternal one died long before I was born; the other, whom I never met, died when I was young. The latter's widow (my mother's stepmother) was called by her first name.

My mother's mother was Nana, and my father's mother Grammy.

There was really only one Grandma, that was it, (my mother's mother) she divorced my grandfather before I was born and I never met him. Other grandmother died before I was born and her husband I saw once as a small kid.

Nana and Pop on mother’s side. We called my nana Nan for short and I thought my sister Nancy, also called Nan, was named after her. Grandma was my dad’s mom. We called her Gram for short. Her husband died young and she never remarried. We used to refer to him as Grandfather. I grew up in NYC and area.

Granny and gramps

I never knew my father's parents. I was very close to my maternal grandparents and called them Mama and Papa. My parents were Mommy and Daddy until I was about 12 and then it morphed into Mom and Dad. NYC born and raised.

Grammy

Grammy

Gran-Gran and Grandpa

Together they were Grandma and Grandad (last name). When addressing either directly they would just be called Grandma or Grandad. When conversing about one singularly not in our presence, they would be referred to as Grandma / Grandad (last name) except for my father's mother who would be referred to as Grandma (first name) when referring only to her. We are white blue blooded Protestants from the Northeast.

r48, actually I was the same. Nana and Grandad 'Smith' on one side, Nana Rose and Granded Jack on the other. I suppose it is a bit strange. I was closer to the first name grandparents.

They were a bunch of bitches

I had one grandparent, my Father's Father. I called him זיידע .

My Irish grandmother was Grandma Nellie. She was a widow so I never knew my grandfather on that side, but I guess he would have been Grandpa Joe. My father's mother was Grandma Retta, and my grandfather on that side (originally from Virginia) was Pappy (rhyming with happy). That last name business for grandparents is a little creepy to me, although I can see how it would be useful when describing or identifying them to strangers. My mother, who is "mom" to me, always addressed her own mother as "mother", so I can see how even within my own family certain formalities were observed in past generations.

[quote] Portuguese: Grandmother was eVau or VaVa (vauvau) Grandfather was Vovo (voovoo)

Va va va BOOM!

To answer your question, r50, they were only referred to by last name when there could be some question as to which set you were referring to.

In their presence they would only be referred to as Grandma or Grandpa, not Grandma Smith or Grampa Jones.

I had great-grandparents until I was a teenager and we also referred to them in conversation as Grandma and Grandpa Doe.

Papet et Mamet

That toxic grifting cunt and that evil thieving bitch.

Grandmother and Grandfather on my mother's side (she was high-born)

Grammy and Pop-Pop on my father's side

Mamere for my moither's mother. I never knew the rest.

[quote]we also referred to them in conversation as Grandma and Grandpa Doe.

That really looks odd to me as my grandparents' surname actually [italic]was[/italic] Doe!

D’oh!

The best grandma reference I ever came across was courtesy of an obscenely normal, middle-class, Aryan-looking family in Northern Nevada. I was talking to one of the kids one day shortly after they'd moved in next-door, and he referred to his "white grandma."

Say [italic]what??[/italic] The kid looked like one of Hitler's Youth Corps members—how could grandma possibly be anything [italic]but[/italic] white? Step-grandma, maybe?

He then started talking about his YELLOW grandma. I began to wonder if the kids were all adopted.

Mom cleared it up for me later: White Grandma had white hair; Yellow Grandma had very blonde hair. Surprisingly, the family had never made a racial connection with the terms they were using. I didn't know whether to find that cute or alarming.

Grandma (both grandfathers had died before I was born). This is in the Midwest. However, my nephew was brought up saying Grandpa Jim, Grandma Jane, etc. because of divorce on the other side of the family, so he has extra Grandmas and Grandpas by marriage (no one is going for step-Grandpa or step-Grandma). I don't know of anyone else who refers to their grandparents via their first names.

Grandma and Grandpa sound like what a four years old says.

Boogra and Boo-Boo

One of my grandmothers was known as "Gammy". Her first grandchild couldn't pronounce Granny and it came out as Gammy, so that is what subsequent grandkids called her. That cousin turned out to be a homophobic right wing cunt, so if you ever meet someone who refers to his grandmother as "Gammy", be on your guard.

Bubba.

[quote] Grandma and Grandpa sound like what a four years old says.

Not as much as calling a four-year-old a "four years old" does, however.

Gram

A woman I work with is in her 40s and is a new grandmother. She is referred to as MiMi as the kids great grandmother and great great grandmother are still alive.

Nana and Papa - Pennsylvania

Grandma and Grandaddy - Florida

Mimi & Pop Pop

Meemaw and Big Daddy Grampy and grammy

Because I am German: Oma and Opa. Talking about them with my parents: Opa and Oma Giengen (the place they moved to, when my grandfather went to Giengen an der Brenz , known as the home of the home of the famous Steiff Teddy bear) He worked there at BOSCH and was a holder of more than 50 patent about refrigerators, cooling systems and air conditioning.

The parents side, not to Much. My dad's mom was always indifferent. A young girl pregnant from whom she never told. My father was 15 years older and survived happily WW2.

Grandma and Grandpa on my mother’s side, and Nana and Pa on my father’s. What I really want to know though, is how R74 is able to use ITALICS! Clearly not on an iPad.

Mother's parents were such characters while they were with us: Poppy and the Commodore, we'd all call them. (Only occasionally Grandpa.) Poppy fancied herself a party girl well into her 90s. RIP.

Daddy's parents were more traditional: they were Grandmere (never Grandma, heavens!) and Grandfather to us all.

Paternal - Baba and Gido (traditional, old-country Ukrainians)

Maternal - Grandma and Grandpa (also Ukrainian, but not traditional)

Before they died:

Mother's side:

Grandpa

Grandma

Father's side:

Grandpa

By her first name or That Woman - she finally died last Christmas. I used to tell my mother that I fully expected to see that bitch wished a happy 100th birthday on the Today Show, and that she was just too evil to die.