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To: grame

No duplicate? Here’s a no duplicate:

“Mommle”

Or as my nephew and others including my mom mis-spell it, “Mah-Mal”. But “mommle” best describes in English phonetics how they say it.

It’s all thanks to my older nephew who attempted to call to his grandma at an early age, not knowing what to call her, I guess. I suppose he heard his mom and me call her “Mom”.

It’s stuck. His sisters adopted it and so even have Mom’s elder “step-grandchildren”! LOL 35year-olds seriously calling her “Mommle”. She likes it because she’s vain and it’s hard for people to tell it means “grandma” and thus, “old woman”.


108 posted on 01/29/2008 1:28:42 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
My daughter’s mother in law chose GG, because it sounded the least like grandma. I can tell you there is nothing like the sound of a 3 or 4 year old who sees you coming in the church door, shouting so the world can hear, ‘GramE’s here’. That sounds like love to me and my age doesn’t matter.
117 posted on 01/29/2008 1:52:02 PM PST by grame (and the greatest of these is Love.)
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