Words for grandparents
Kim & Rima McKinzey
rkm at SLIP.NET
Fri Oct 20 20:29:50 UTC 2000
>I also grew up in the 50s in a NYC suburb and then in NYC itself, in an
>Ashkenazic family. Our (my sister's and my) maternal grandparents were Nana
>(or Nana Tillie) and Grandpa Sam (never just "Grandpa"); our paternal gps
>were Gramms* and Pops, never with their names (Martha and Adolph) attached.
Nobody has yet mentioned what we called our paternal grandparents -
Bubbie and Zaydie. They were distinguished from our maternal
grandparents, who were Gramma and Grampa.
Rima
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