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Title: Odd name
Post by: RubyRed on May 17, 2019, 22:04

  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,

Title: Re: Odd name
Post by: 8doubles on May 18, 2019, 10:19

Quote from: RubyRed on May 17, 2019, 22:04

  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 ! :D
We are always twisting our and other languages , Cambridge should be on the river Came but it ain't ! ;)

Title: Re: Odd name
Post by: mrs bouquet on May 18, 2019, 10:55

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

Title: Re: Odd name
Post by: AlaninCarlisle on May 18, 2019, 11:19

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?

Title: Re: Odd name
Post by: Kleftiwallah on May 18, 2019, 11:46

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

Cheers,  Tony. :)

Title: Re: Odd name
Post by: Goosegirl on May 18, 2019, 12:10

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

Title: Re: Odd name
Post by: Aidy on May 18, 2019, 12:14

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