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How do you or your kids address your granddad?

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  • #32
    GusherING
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 364 ✭✭GusherING


    One of my grandfathers likes to be called by his first name.

    The other went as 'Pappy'.

    Two grannies were called 'Granny'.


  • #33
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    dublin granda and culchie granda


  • #34
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Never saw any of mine. I don't know what I would have called them.


  • #35
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    I call my grandparents Nanny & Grandad. I don't have lids though so they don't call them anything :pac:


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
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    Granny and Grandad


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  • #37
    blackbird98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭blackbird98


    Granny and Pops


  • #38
    princess-lala
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    I call my grandad da! As do all the grandchildren.


  • #39
    ruthloss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    Wabbit Ears wrote: »
    The kids call them babcia and dziadek



    Bardzo dobre. ;)


  • #40
    Jinonatron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Jinonatron


    My kids father is me. My granddad is their great granddad. Their Grandad is my Dad. So to answer your question. They refer to him as grandads dead dad.


  • #41
    NormalBob Ubiquitypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭NormalBob Ubiquitypants


    Always called my grandparents by their first names on ma's side. I once tried to call my grandmother nana- I was told she was not a goat.
    The other side I used to refer to them as Mr and Mrs simply because I hated them and it was the petty revenge of a child.


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  • #42
    Angry_Mammarys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Angry_Mammarys


    A friend of mine calls his granda ''Bitch'' as in,'' hey bitch, make me a cup of tea..'' or ''bitch do you want something in the shop?''


  • #43
    Toots
    Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 17,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Toots


    All of my grandparents are dead, but we called my mum's parents Grandma and Grandpa, and my dad's were Grandma and Grandad.

    My son calls my parents Grandma and Grandad, and my husband's parents are Granny and Grandad.


  • #44
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Nana and Granddad


  • #45
    Blushing Pixie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭Blushing Pixie


    Gran and Pop Pop, and Nana on the other side.


  • #46
    Jonny Blaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Jonny Blaze


    Used to call my grandad 'Papa' not like the posh way of pronouncing it, with the hard 'A' sound.

    And my granny was 'gags'


  • #47
    Robson Lobson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 75 ✭✭Robson Lobson


    NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »
    Always called my grandparents by their first names on ma's side. I once tried to call my grandmother nana- I was told she was not a goat.
    The other side I used to refer to them as Mr and Mrs simply because I hated them and it was the petty revenge of a child.

    That's not what the thread is about, what did you call your great grandparents?


  • #48
    charlietheminxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭charlietheminxx


    Nana and (firstname).


  • #49
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Big Boss, when they're not playing with my bloody eyepatch again.


  • #50
    tiny_penguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭tiny_penguin


    Well called both out grandmothers grandma, there was never any other option. We called my dads father grampa and my moms father was known as papa by his grandchildren (he died before I was born but all is grand kids still refer to him as papa when we talk about him)

    My mums grandfather was still alive until I was 3 and we all called him grampa joe.

    My niece is only one by my sister refers to my parents as grandma and grampa when referring to them, don't think my mother would like anything else.


  • #51
    NormalBob Ubiquitypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭NormalBob Ubiquitypants


    Robson Lobson wrote: »
    That's not what the thread is about, what did you call your great grandparents?

    ah! On my mother's side they were called Grammy and Grampi.


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  • #52
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Nana and Papa all the way.


  • #53
    secman
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    Our granson , just gone 2, was doing his best to call me granddad but for the last month or so he's been calling me john. So it's nanny and john.


  • #54
    miss_shadow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭miss_shadow


    Grumpy


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