[RubyRed]

  Very curious to know about another name for grandma that as a family we have always used. I'm 62 and my grandma , and great grandma were known by the grandchildren as mamam. Even my nieces children call my mum mamam. I'm a nottingham gal and the only other person I know who used the same name for her granny was from Mansfield. So I think it could be a local thing. Any members use the same. And where do you think it comes from. It can't be French because that is maman,

[8doubles]

  Very curious to know about another name for grandma that as a family we have always used. I'm 62 and my grandma , and great grandma were known by the grandchildren as mamam. Even my nieces children call my mum mamam. I'm a nottingham gal and the only other person I know who used the same name for her granny was from Mansfield. So I think it could be a local thing. Any members use the same. And where do you think it comes from. It can't be French because that is maman,

I doubt a 4 year old would tell the difference twixt an M and an N !
We are always twisting our and other languages , Cambridge should be on the river Came but it ain't !

[mrs bouquet]

Could it be,  this lady is Mam's Mam, and so it became mamam ?   Mrs Bouquet

[AlaninCarlisle]

Digressing slightly but staying with the Mam theme. When I was growing up in working-class South-West Lancashire in the 1940s, Mum was considered higher social class than Mam. Did this nonsense apply to other areas?

[Kleftiwallah]

Me Mam's Mam was always Nana. (Isn't Maman somehow welsh)?

Cheers,  Tony.

[Goosegirl]

I called my mum's mum Nana and my dad's I called grandma.

[Aidy]

Me old man was from Nottingham and we always knew gran as gran. we used to "vist me gran n grandad in Nottngham", never heard heard say owt else.

Alan
Always mam in our neck'th woods