Dillards 48: Proselytising Prick Preaching to People

[HarryPotterFan]

My cousin’s kids call one set of grandparents grandpa and nana and the other set poppy and grandma. Or something like that. I don’t know. I can’t keep track. It gets confusing.

[Georgiana]

My niece calls my grandfather "Geep" (pronounced like 'Jeep'). She calls my grandma "Gigi" (a.k.a. GG for great grandma), so it seemed natural to go with G Papa for her great grandpa. But ain't no toddler got time for a 3 syllable name (not when she's got Moana to watch and exploring to do!) so she quickly shortened it to Geep. Geep and Gigi.

Grandpa is Papa. Grandma is ???? because she won't say it, much to my mother's chagrin. 

[PennySycamore]

Meemaw and Peepaw are Southern things, y'all, and maybe a bit white trash.  I know that I don't associate it with educated people (Sheldon of The Big Band Theory the lone exception.)  (Yes, I know this is classist of me.)  Like @JenniferJuniper, my husband could not say Grandpa for his maternal grandfather so he got a unique name that my husband coined.  His maternal grandmother was Nanna.  My mom decided she wanted to be Mammy (and my dad Pappy) because those were what my dad called his grandparents.  I don't know that my dad was so thrilled about being called Pappy, but he got used to it.  I'm Grams because I was watching Charmed a lot when my oldest grandchild was in the "oven" and I loved the Hallowell sisters' grandmother.  She was a badass old hippie!

[itqitc]

I called my dad’s parents Grandma and Grandpa and my mom’s Nonni and Nonno.  Nonno is 91 and still kicking, the others passed years ago. 

My my nephew calls my parents Poppy and Nonni.  My mom forced Nonni,  no idea where Poppi came from. East coast CT family, if that makes a difference. 

[potato]

All of my grandparents immigrated from Greece and we refer to them by the names for grandma and grandpa from the regions of Greece they're from.  

[oldfashionedgal]

My grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa for the English couple and Yaiyai and Pappou for my mum’s Greek parents. I always liked that they had different names, it meant there was never confusion as to who was being spoken about.

My in-laws have claimed nanny and poppy for themselves, which I suspect will morph to nan and pop as my neice and nephew get older. Mum’s made it clear when we have kids she wants to be yaiyai, I have no idea what Dad will get but I do hope it’s Grandpa

[Rachel333]

3 hours ago, JenniferJuniper said:

Often it starts with a child not being able to pronounce the grandparent's preferred name and the baby name sticks.  Sometimes for generations.   Having been the first grandchild on both sides of the family, I am responsible for two odd grandmother names that stuck, one for 50 years and through many grandchildren and great grandchildren. 

I gave my paternal grandmother her name that way. I wasn't even the first grandchild (the first is a year older than me), but it still spread to all the other grandchildren!

[Audrey2]

My siblings and I called our grandparents Grandpa and Grandma Dadsname and Grandpa and Grandma Momsname. I've been with my Sweetie all of his grandson's life, and have been an integral part of his grandson's life. I strongly feel that Sweetie's ex should be Grandma, so I chose an ethnic version of Grandma, based on my ethnic heritage.

[VelociRapture]

59 minutes ago, itqitc said:

I called my dad’s parents Grandma and Grandpa and my mom’s Nonni and Nonno.  Nonno is 91 and still kicking, the others passed years ago. 

My my nephew calls my parents Poppy and Nonni.  My mom forced Nonni,  no idea where Poppi came from. East coast CT family, if that makes a difference. 

CT here. My grandparents were Grandma, Grandpa, Grandpa “Rapture” (died before my oldest sister was born), Grandma “Smith” (divorced from Grandpa Rapture when Dad was a kid), and Grandpa “Smith” (step-Grandpa we adored.) My parents are now Grandma “Kate” and Grandpa “Pete” (set by my sister and BIL) and my in-laws are Grandma “Marie” and Papa “Francis” (set by my husband and I) - Papa has been used on husband’s paternal side for three generations now, so it’s a nice little tradition we wanted to continue.

(All names changed of course.)

ETA: For the poster wondering, Israel turns 3 on April 6.

[SapphireSlytherin]

1 hour ago, PennySycamore said:

Meemaw and Peepaw are Southern things, y'all, and maybe a bit white trash.

Wow. At least you admit you're classist - which, by the way, doesn't make you one bit better than Southerners who proudly call their grandparents Mema and Pepa (my great-grandparents' "names" bestowed by my parents' generation. Snarking on the names children come up with for their grandparents is beyond low-class, and I'm sure that's not the type of "classist" you were going for. lol

 

[AprilQuilt]

I've just remembered that one of our dinner ladies at my tiny rural primary school was the grandmother of one of the pupils, and we all called her his name for her - Granny Sweetheart.

[Four is Enough]

7 hours ago, louisa05 said:

I read a couple articles about that show (and many other reality shows) when I did a paper in grad school about reality television. They are paid people that the producers bring in to appraise items. Some were people that the staff had previously used, most were not. So the notion that they are all Rick's personal "buddies" of longstanding is a bit silly. SNIP

I stand corrected, although I think it would be wise for a pawn shop owner in a busy and flamboyant place such as Las Vegas to have a group of "specialists" on whom he could   call for just such appraisals..

On another topic, my grandparents were Pap Pap and Grandma Last Name... my father is Pappy to the grandkids, and my mother was Mamaw, pronounced in the French Maman. My brother is Pappy First Name to his grandchildren. My sister became Mimi to my nephew, her son, when his older brother said she was "my mommy" and the younger said "Me Mie Me" and that became Mimi... and now we all call her that.

[Iamtheway]

In Sweden maternal grandparents are mormor and morfar and paternal grandparents are farmor and farfar. (Mor=mother. Far=father.) Very easy and I’ve never heard anyone use other names once they’ve learnt how to speak properly, even though I’m sure some people do. 

My Australian inlaws have told us what they want Miniway to call them and we just go with it. I think there is some sort of rivalry with their other grandchildrens other grandparents. It’s all very confusing. I often refer to them as farmor and farfar when I speak Swedish to Miniway and he seems to get who I mean. 

[SapphireSlytherin]

I'm assuming if GryffindorDisappointment has children (Magic 8 ball says "outlook not so good"), that DH and I will be called Nain (pronounced "nine") and Taid (pronounced "tide") - the Welsh versions of grandma & grandpa. 

[singsingsing]

My dad called his French Canadian grandparents Memere and Pepere.

[MarblesMom]

7 hours ago, JenniferJuniper said:

Reality shows are like those drinks that look like juice but actually only contain 3% fruit.  They are mostly not real.

Can I add telethons can be similar?  I was a participant on one (I don't even remember the charity now, but it was a household name) back in 1994 or so... in between reading names off, they had me "work" the telephone bank.... LOL the phones were not even live.... they told me when my phone rang, to answer it and pretend to take a donation.  They rang random phones all afternoon and not one of us had a conversation with anyone on the other end of the line.

Maybe they had the calls directed to a professional call center, so volunteers didn't screw up the info?

So WEIRD.

[grandmadugger]

18 hours ago, JenniferJuniper said:

Well, no gravy train can hold that many passengers for that long.  Probably wouldn't take a junior rocket scientist to see that the show will end, the Duggars will be relegated to the ash heap of reality television, and that Jim Bob will have to decide where to best use his (not unsubstantial but still ultimately limited) resources going forward.   All of the sons-in-law will ultimately have to - mostly - pull their own weight.   And Derick wants to be seen and known as  *man*, not a dependent.   Course, being a smug, clueless Mama's boy he has no idea how to actually pull it off. 

She's not one of my favorites, but I do feel sorry for Jill.  She doesn't have half the smarts of Jessa and she's been sold a bill of goods since the day she was born.  

The gravy train will dry up at some point but it hasn’t yet. Unless I wanted completely out of the life style I would have kept my mouth shut to get all the gravy I could. Hell at this point in the game even if I was planning to leave the fundie life behind I would keep my mouth shut. The money from TLC would make a nice nest egg when I knew I would be cut off. 

11 hours ago, SapphireSlytherin said:

I would put my retirement fund on a bet that they're living in the LLC-owned property that Cross Church has leased from the LLC. Remember - he's in a "residential ministry" program.

I thought the residential part was optional. I thought it was a few thousand cheaper to not do the residential part that’s why he was raising 10k. I think you are absolutely correct that they are in Cross Church property but why? He started needing the amount without the residential part and now he’s in residential housing. 

[Topaz]

14 minutes ago, MarblesMom said:

Can I add telethons can be similar?  I was a participant on one (I don't even remember the charity now, but it was a household name) back in 1994 or so... in between reading names off, they had me "work" the telephone bank.... LOL the phones were not even live.... they told me when my phone rang, to answer it and pretend to take a donation.  They rang random phones all afternoon and not one of us had a conversation with anyone on the other end of the line.

Maybe they had the calls directed to a professional call center, so volunteers didn't screw up the info?

So WEIRD.

I used to work in a call centre which supplied staff for the major U.K. telethons (Children in Need, Comic Relief and Sport Relief). I did one of the Relief ones one year. We were all volunteers in that we were doing it in our own time and not being paid but we were all call centre employees who were on the phones in our day to day roles, so professionals in that respect. One call centre “hosted” it so to speak but there were volunteers from a number of different companies. 

This would have been around 2008/9, I imagine most donations are made by text or on line these days.

[HarleyQuinn]

4 hours ago, PennySycamore said:

Meemaw and Peepaw are Southern things, y'all, and maybe a bit white trash. 

I associated this with Southerns too because I haven't heard any of my fellow Upper Midwest people do that. My BIL is from Kentucky and his kids call his dad Pappy but his step dad is Pappoo and I just sit here and silently cringe over it.

I sound like such a grammar nazi but I swear I'm not. It's just weird baby talk I have an issue with.  

[PennySycamore]

@HarleyQuinn, my dad was from south central Kentucky so Mammy and Pappy seems to be a Kentucky thing as a      Mississippi phenomena.  We has some neighbors from Mississippi many moons ago and they also called their grandparents mammy and pappy.

[Imagine20]

I always called my grandparents and great grandparents "Grandma" and "Grandpa." My step-brother's kids call my mom Mamaw, which just bugs the crap out of me for some reason (having nothing to do with the word Mamaw). They live in southern Ohio, so that's pretty common there. I'm from South Dakota and never knew anyone who didn't just use grandma and grandpa.

I find cultural differences like this very interesting. Like how I'm called "auntie" by any younger Sri Lankan female, whether we're related by marriage or not. (My husband is Sri Lankan, I'm not just some weird girl from So Dak who just runs into people from there randomly.) But I'm called what sounds like "mommy" in English by my actual nieces and nephews.

[karen77]

I called my grandparents (paternal) Grandma and Grandpa, and my maternal grandfather, Grandad (my maternal grandmother died before I was born). I liked having different names, so when we were talking about them at home, I knew from the name exaclty who it was in the conversation. SO... with my kids, we figured out waht to call all the grandparents. My husbands parents (divorced, but not remarried) got to both be Grandma and Grandpa, especially since they were already designated by my BIL's kids as such. So, as my parents didn't have any grandkids yet (me being an only child), they are Nana and Papa (also divorced and my dad is remarried now) and so my stepmom is GiGi. 

 

It keeps it all straight for the kids. 

[JordynDarby5]

I'm loving this grandparent names conversation. Its amazing how many different names there are and experiences. Both sets of my grandparents were called Grandpa and Grandma. My brother and I actually hated it because it was so confusing. Always having to clarify if you were talking about Grandma, Mom's mom or Dad's mom. Having two heads looking up when you said grandma.  My parents didn't like it for the same reason 'if Grandma called well which one?' My grandparents didn't like Grandpa Last name because they thought it sounded like what grandchildren call grandparents they don't know (no Grandpa its because we have two and you both insist on being called Grandpa). My great-grandparents had specific names and it was so much easier. Everyone immediately knew who you were talking about when you said the name.  When my sister-in-law was expecting my nephew the conversation of grandparents names came up my family all immediately said at once there should be different names so it would be much easier. They each do and its so much easier.            

[Dandruff]

We called my grandparents Grandma (whichever first name) and Grandpa (whichever first name).  It worked.

[candygirl200413]

My parents have been brainstorming grandparent names (mind you none of their adult children are anywhere close to being able to have children atm), interestingly enough we are east african and they don't want the name that we call grandparent ( the word is gender neutral) and have been brainstorming those nicknames that many of you have listed. I usually called my grandparents grandma/pa and not the name from our native language while my siblings would use the native language name.